occultation

Other forms of occultation

plural

occultations·

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 occultation

What does occultation mean?

occultation means "one celestial body obscures another".

How many syllables are in occultation?

occultation has 5 syllables: oc-cul-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for occultation?

Close synonyms include eclipse. 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 occultation a common word?

occultation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.