fabrication

Other forms of fabrication

plural

fabrications·

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 fabrication

What does fabrication mean?

fabrication means "a deliberately false or improbable account". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fabrication?

fabrication has 4 syllables: fab-ri-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌfæbɹɪˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for fabrication?

Close synonyms include fiction, fable, fictionalization, fictionalisation, manufacture. 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 fabrication a common word?

fabrication is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 fabrication?

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