gradation

Other forms of gradation

plural

gradations·

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 gradation

What does gradation mean?

gradation means "relative position in a graded series". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gradation?

gradation has 3 syllables: gra-da-tion. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /ɡɹeɪˈdeɪʃən/.

What is another word for gradation?

Close synonyms include step, grade, graduation. 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 gradation a common word?

gradation 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.

What rhymes with gradation?

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