peculation

Other forms of peculation

plural

peculations·

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 peculation

What does peculation mean?

peculation means "the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else".

How many syllables are in peculation?

peculation has 5 syllables: pe-cu-la-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for peculation?

Close synonyms include embezzlement, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation. 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 peculation a common word?

peculation 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.