publication

Other forms of publication

plural

publications·

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 publication

What does publication mean?

publication means "a copy of a printed work offered for distribution". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in publication?

publication has 4 syllables: pub-li-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌpʌblɪˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for publication?

Close synonyms include issue, publishing. 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 publication a common word?

publication 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 publication?

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