inspection

1. 1.

   a formal or official examination

   “the platoon stood ready for review”

   “we had to wait for the inspection before we could use the elevator”

   Synonymsreview

   Broaderexamination

   Narrowercheck

Other forms of inspection

plural

inspections·

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 inspection

What does inspection mean?

inspection means "a formal or official examination".

How many syllables are in inspection?

inspection has 3 syllables: in-spec-tion. The stress falls on "spec". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈspɛkʃən/.

What is another word for inspection?

Close synonyms include review. 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 inspection a common word?

inspection 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 inspection?

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