infusion

Other forms of infusion

plural

infusions·

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 infusion

What does infusion mean?

infusion means "a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in infusion?

infusion has 3 syllables: in-fu-sion. The stress falls on "fu". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈfjuʒən/.

What is another word for infusion?

Close synonyms include extract. 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 infusion a common word?

infusion 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 infusion?

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