invitation

Other forms of invitation

plural

invitations·

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 invitation

What does invitation mean?

invitation means "a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in invitation?

invitation has 4 syllables: in-vi-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/.

Is invitation a common word?

invitation is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 invitation?

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