placentation

Other forms of placentation

plural

placentations·

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 placentation

What does placentation mean?

placentation means "the formation of the placenta in the uterus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in placentation?

placentation has 5 syllables and divides as pla-cen-ta-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is placentation a common word?

placentation 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.