faction

Other forms of faction

plural

factions·

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 faction

What does faction mean?

faction means "a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in faction?

faction has 2 syllables: fac-tion. The stress falls on "fac". In IPA it is /ˈfækʃən/.

What is another word for faction?

Close synonyms include cabal, junto, camarilla, sect. 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 faction a common word?

faction 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 faction?

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