indentation

Other forms of indentation

plural

indentations·

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 indentation

What does indentation mean?

indentation means "a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indentation?

indentation has 4 syllables: in-den-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˌdɛnˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for indentation?

Close synonyms include indenture, pitting, roughness, indention, indent. 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 indentation a common word?

indentation 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 indentation?

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