pigmentation

Other forms of pigmentation

plural

pigmentations·

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 pigmentation

What does pigmentation mean?

pigmentation means "the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pigmentation?

pigmentation has 4 syllables: pig-men-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌpɪɡmənˈteɪʃən/.

What is the opposite of pigmentation?

The recorded antonyms are depigmentation.

Is pigmentation a common word?

pigmentation 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 pigmentation?

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