instruction

Other forms of instruction

plural

instructions·

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 instruction

What does instruction mean?

instruction means "a message describing how something is to be done". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in instruction?

instruction has 3 syllables: in-struc-tion. The stress falls on "struc". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/.

What is another word for instruction?

Close synonyms include direction, education, teaching, pedagogy, didactics. 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 instruction a common word?

instruction 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 instruction?

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