infestation

Other forms of infestation

plural

infestations·

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 infestation

What does infestation mean?

infestation means "the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in infestation?

infestation has 4 syllables: in-fes-ta-tion. The stress falls on "fes". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈfɛˈsteɪʃən/.

What is another word for infestation?

Close synonyms include plague. 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 infestation a common word?

infestation 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 infestation?

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