pollution

Other forms of pollution

plural

pollutions·

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 pollution

What does pollution mean?

pollution means "undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pollution?

pollution has 3 syllables: pol-lu-tion. The stress falls on "lu". In IPA it is /pəˈluʃən/.

What is another word for pollution?

Close synonyms include befoulment, defilement, contamination. 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 pollution a common word?

pollution 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 pollution?

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