inhalation

Other forms of inhalation

plural

inhalations·

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 inhalation

What does inhalation mean?

inhalation means "the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inhalation?

inhalation has 4 syllables: in-ha-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ɪnəˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for inhalation?

Close synonyms include inspiration, aspiration, intake, breathing in, inhalant. 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 inhalation a common word?

inhalation 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 inhalation?

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