ingestion

Other forms of ingestion

plural

ingestions·

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 ingestion

What does ingestion mean?

ingestion means "the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)".

How many syllables are in ingestion?

ingestion has 3 syllables: in-ges-tion. The stress falls on "ges". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdʒɛstʃən/.

What is another word for ingestion?

Close synonyms include consumption, intake, uptake. 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 ingestion a common word?

ingestion 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 ingestion?

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