recommendation

Other forms of recommendation

plural

recommendations·

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 recommendation

What does recommendation mean?

recommendation means "something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recommendation?

recommendation has 5 syllables: rec-om-men-da-tion. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /ˌɹɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən/.

What is another word for recommendation?

Close synonyms include testimonial, good word, passport. 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 recommendation a common word?

recommendation is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 recommendation?

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