fiction

Other forms of fiction

plural

fictions·

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 fiction

What does fiction mean?

fiction means "a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fiction?

fiction has 2 syllables: fic-tion. The stress falls on "fic". In IPA it is /ˈfɪkʃən/.

What is another word for fiction?

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

fiction is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 fiction?

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