mission

Other forms of mission

plural

missions·

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 mission

What does mission mean?

mission means "an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mission?

mission has 2 syllables: mis-sion. The stress falls on "mis". In IPA it is /ˈmɪʃən/.

What is another word for mission?

Close synonyms include missionary post, missionary station, foreign mission, military mission, charge. 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 mission a common word?

mission is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 mission?

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