extortion

Other forms of extortion

plural

extortions·

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 extortion

What does extortion mean?

extortion means "an exorbitant charge". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in extortion?

extortion has 3 syllables: ex-tor-tion. The stress falls on "tor". In IPA it is /ɛkˈstɔɹʃən/.

Is extortion a common word?

extortion 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.

What rhymes with extortion?

1 word rhymes with extortion. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.