exfoliation

Other forms of exfoliation

plural

exfoliations·

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 exfoliation

What does exfoliation mean?

exfoliation means "the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exfoliation?

exfoliation has 5 syllables: ex-fo-li-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ɛkˌsfoʊliˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for exfoliation?

Close synonyms include scale, scurf. 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 exfoliation a common word?

exfoliation 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.

What rhymes with exfoliation?

133 words rhyme with exfoliation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.