remission

Other forms of remission

plural

remissions·

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 remission

What does remission mean?

remission means "an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in remission?

remission has 3 syllables: re-mis-sion. The stress falls on "mis". In IPA it is /ɹiˈmɪʃən/.

What is another word for remission?

Close synonyms include remittal, subsidence, remittance, remittal, remitment. 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 remission a common word?

remission 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 remission?

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