purification

Other forms of purification

plural

purifications·

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 purification

What does purification mean?

purification means "the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in purification?

purification has 5 syllables: pur-i-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌpjʊɹəfəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for purification?

Close synonyms include refining, refinement, purgation. 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 purification a common word?

purification 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.

What rhymes with purification?

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