information

Other forms of information

plural

informations·

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 information

What does information mean?

information means "a message received and understood". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in information?

information has 4 syllables: in-for-ma-tion. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /ˌɪnfɚˈmeɪʃən/.

What is another word for information?

Close synonyms include info, data, selective information, entropy. 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 information a common word?

information is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 information?

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