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say it: in-FLEK-shuhn
inflection is a noun meaning "a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inflection come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.