obstruction

Other forms of obstruction

plural

obstructions·

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 obstruction

What does obstruction mean?

obstruction means "any structure that makes progress difficult". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obstruction?

obstruction has 3 syllables: ob-struc-tion. The stress falls on "struc". In IPA it is /əbˈstɹʌkʃən/.

What is another word for obstruction?

Close synonyms include obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta, blockage. 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 obstruction a common word?

obstruction 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 obstruction?

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