irrigation

Other forms of irrigation

plural

irrigations·

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 irrigation

What does irrigation mean?

irrigation means "supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in irrigation?

irrigation has 4 syllables: ir-ri-ga-tion. The stress falls on "ga". In IPA it is /ˌɪɹəˈɡeɪʃən/.

Is irrigation a common word?

irrigation 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 irrigation?

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