injection

Other forms of injection

plural

injections·

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 injection

What does injection mean?

injection means "the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in injection?

injection has 3 syllables: in-jec-tion. The stress falls on "jec". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdʒɛkʃən/.

What is another word for injection?

Close synonyms include injectant, shot. 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 injection a common word?

injection is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 injection?

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