inundation

Other forms of inundation

plural

inundations·

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 inundation

What does inundation mean?

inundation means "the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inundation?

inundation has 4 syllables: in-un-da-tion. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /ˌɪnənˈdeɪʃən/.

What is another word for inundation?

Close synonyms include flood, deluge, alluvion, flood, deluge. 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 inundation a common word?

inundation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 inundation?

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