qualification

Other forms of qualification

plural

qualifications·

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 qualification

What does qualification mean?

qualification means "an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in qualification?

qualification has 5 syllables: qua-li-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌkwɑləfəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for qualification?

Close synonyms include making, reservation. 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 qualification a common word?

qualification 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 qualification?

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