excretion

Other forms of excretion

plural

excretions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about excretion

What does excretion mean?

excretion means "the bodily process of discharging waste matter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excretion?

excretion has 3 syllables: ex-cre-tion. The stress falls on "cre". In IPA it is /ɪkˈskɹiʃən/.

What is another word for excretion?

Close synonyms include elimination, evacuation, excreting, voiding, body waste. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is excretion a common word?

excretion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.