innovation

Other forms of innovation

plural

innovations·

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 innovation

What does innovation mean?

innovation means "a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in innovation?

innovation has 4 syllables: in-no-va-tion. The stress falls on "va". In IPA it is /ˌɪnəˈveɪʃən/.

What is another word for innovation?

Close synonyms include invention, invention, excogitation, conception, design. 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 innovation a common word?

innovation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 innovation?

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