perturbation

Other forms of perturbation

plural

perturbations·

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 perturbation

What does perturbation mean?

perturbation means "an unhappy and worried mental state". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in perturbation?

perturbation has 4 syllables: per-tur-ba-tion. The stress falls on "ba". In IPA it is /ˌpɝtɚˈbeɪʃən/.

What is another word for perturbation?

Close synonyms include disturbance, upset, disturbance, fluster, disruption. 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 perturbation a common word?

perturbation 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.

What rhymes with perturbation?

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