incineration

1. 1.

   the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes

   Broaderburning

   Narrowercremation

Other forms of incineration

plural

incinerations·

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 incineration

What does incineration mean?

incineration means "the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes".

How many syllables are in incineration?

incineration has 5 syllables: in-cin-e-ra-tion. The stress falls on "cin". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈsɪnɚˌeɪʃən/.

Is incineration a common word?

incineration 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 incineration?

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