instigation

Other forms of instigation

plural

instigations·

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 instigation

What does instigation mean?

instigation means "the verbal act of urging on". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in instigation?

instigation has 4 syllables: in-sti-ga-tion. The stress falls on "ga". In IPA it is /ˌɪnstɪˈɡeɪʃən/.

What is another word for instigation?

Close synonyms include abetment, abettal, fomentation. 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 instigation a common word?

instigation 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 instigation?

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