invocation

Other forms of invocation

plural

invocations·

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 invocation

What does invocation mean?

invocation means "a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in invocation?

invocation has 4 syllables: in-vo-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for invocation?

Close synonyms include supplication, conjuring, conjuration, conjury. 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 invocation a common word?

invocation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 invocation?

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