gratification

Other forms of gratification

plural

gratifications·

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 gratification

What does gratification mean?

gratification means "state of being gratified or satisfied". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gratification?

gratification has 5 syllables: grat-i-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌɡɹætəfəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for gratification?

Close synonyms include satisfaction. 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 gratification a common word?

gratification 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 gratification?

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