inflammation

Other forms of inflammation

plural

inflammations·

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 inflammation

What does inflammation mean?

inflammation means "a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inflammation?

inflammation has 4 syllables: in-flam-ma-tion. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /ˌɪnfləˈmeɪʃən/.

What is another word for inflammation?

Close synonyms include redness, rubor, excitement, excitation, fervor. 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 inflammation a common word?

inflammation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 inflammation?

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