refutation

Other forms of refutation

plural

refutations·

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 refutation

What does refutation mean?

refutation means "the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in refutation?

refutation has 4 syllables: ref-u-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌɹɛfjuˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for refutation?

Close synonyms include defense, defence, disproof, falsification, falsification. 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 refutation a common word?

refutation 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 refutation?

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