irruption

Other forms of irruption

plural

irruptions·

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 irruption

What does irruption mean?

irruption means "a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in irruption?

irruption has 4 syllables: ir-rup-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for irruption?

Close synonyms include outbreak, eruption. 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 irruption a common word?

irruption 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.