prognostication

Other forms of prognostication

plural

prognostications·

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 prognostication

What does prognostication mean?

prognostication means "a sign of something about to happen". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prognostication?

prognostication has 5 syllables: prog-no-sti-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /pɹɑɡˌnɑstəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for prognostication?

Close synonyms include omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prodigy. 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 prognostication a common word?

prognostication 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 prognostication?

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