recitation

Other forms of recitation

plural

recitations·

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 recitation

What does recitation mean?

recitation means "written matter that is recited from memory". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recitation?

recitation has 4 syllables: rec-i-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌɹɛsəˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for recitation?

Close synonyms include recital, reading, course session, class period, exercise. 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 recitation a common word?

recitation 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 recitation?

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