expulsion

Other forms of expulsion

plural

expulsions·

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 expulsion

What does expulsion mean?

expulsion means "the act of forcing out someone or something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in expulsion?

expulsion has 3 syllables: ex-pul-sion. The stress falls on "pul". In IPA it is /ɪkˈspʌlʃən/.

What is another word for expulsion?

Close synonyms include ejection, exclusion, riddance, extrusion, projection. 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 expulsion a common word?

expulsion is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.