insulation

Other forms of insulation

plural

insulations·

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 insulation

What does insulation mean?

insulation means "the state of being isolated or detached". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in insulation?

insulation has 4 syllables: in-su-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for insulation?

Close synonyms include insularity, insularism, detachment, insulant. 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 insulation a common word?

insulation 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 insulation?

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