recollection

Other forms of recollection

plural

recollections·

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 recollection

What does recollection mean?

recollection means "the ability to recall past occurrences". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recollection?

recollection has 4 syllables: rec-ol-lec-tion. The stress falls on "lec". In IPA it is /ˌɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/.

What is another word for recollection?

Close synonyms include remembrance, anamnesis, recall, reminiscence. 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 recollection a common word?

recollection 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 recollection?

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