participation

Other forms of participation

plural

participations·

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 participation

What does participation mean?

participation means "the act of sharing in the activities of a group". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in participation?

participation has 5 syllables: par-tic-i-pa-tion. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /pɑɹˌtɪsəˈpeɪʃən/.

What is another word for participation?

Close synonyms include engagement, involvement, involution, involvement. 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.

What is the opposite of participation?

The recorded antonyms are nonparticipation.

Is participation a common word?

participation 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 participation?

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