impersonation

Other forms of impersonation

plural

impersonations·

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 impersonation

What does impersonation mean?

impersonation means "a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impersonation?

impersonation has 5 syllables: im-per-so-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˌɪmpɚsəˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for impersonation?

Close synonyms include caricature, imitation, imposture, personation. 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 impersonation a common word?

impersonation 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 impersonation?

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