ramification

Other forms of ramification

plural

ramifications·

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 ramification

What does ramification mean?

ramification means "the act of branching out or dividing into branches". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ramification?

ramification has 5 syllables: ram-i-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌɹæməfəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for ramification?

Close synonyms include branching, fork, forking, branch, leg. 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 ramification a common word?

ramification 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 ramification?

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