lactation

Other forms of lactation

plural

lactations·

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 lactation

What does lactation mean?

lactation means "the period following birth during which milk is secreted". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lactation?

lactation has 3 syllables: lac-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /lækˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for lactation?

Close synonyms include suckling. 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 lactation a common word?

lactation 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 lactation?

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