occlusion

Other forms of occlusion

plural

occlusions·

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 occlusion

What does occlusion mean?

occlusion means "closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in occlusion?

occlusion has 3 syllables: oc-clu-sion. The stress falls on "clu". In IPA it is /əˈkluʒən/.

What is another word for occlusion?

Close synonyms include occluded front, blockage, block, closure, stop. 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 occlusion a common word?

occlusion 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 occlusion?

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