fossilization

Other forms of fossilization

plural

fossilizations·

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 fossilization

What does fossilization mean?

fossilization means "the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fossilization?

fossilization has 6 syllables: fos-si-li-za-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for fossilization?

Close synonyms include fossilisation, fossilisation. 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 fossilization a common word?

fossilization is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.