intermission

Other forms of intermission

plural

intermissions·

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 intermission

What does intermission mean?

intermission means "the act of suspending activity temporarily". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in intermission?

intermission has 4 syllables: in-ter-mis-sion. The stress falls on "mis". In IPA it is /ˌɪntɚˈmɪʃən/.

What is another word for intermission?

Close synonyms include pause, break, interruption, suspension. 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 intermission a common word?

intermission 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 intermission?

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