infection

Other forms of infection

plural

infections·

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 infection

What does infection mean?

infection means "the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in infection?

infection has 3 syllables: in-fec-tion. The stress falls on "fec". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈfɛkʃən/.

What is another word for infection?

Close synonyms include contagion, transmission, contagion. 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 infection a common word?

infection is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 infection?

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