indention

Questions about indention

What does indention mean?

indention means "the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line".

How many syllables are in indention?

indention has 4 syllables and divides as in-den-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for indention?

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

indention 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.