prevention

Other forms of prevention

plural

preventions·

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 prevention

What does prevention mean?

prevention means "the act of preventing".

How many syllables are in prevention?

prevention has 3 syllables: pre-ven-tion. The stress falls on "ven". In IPA it is /pɹiˈvɛnʃən/.

What is another word for prevention?

Close synonyms include bar. 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 prevention a common word?

prevention 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 prevention?

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