navigation

Other forms of navigation

plural

navigations·

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 navigation

What does navigation mean?

navigation means "the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in navigation?

navigation has 4 syllables: nav-i-ga-tion. The stress falls on "nav". In IPA it is /ˈnævəˈɡeɪʃən/.

What is another word for navigation?

Close synonyms include pilotage, piloting, seafaring, sailing. 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 navigation a common word?

navigation 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 navigation?

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