repercussion

Other forms of repercussion

plural

repercussions·

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 repercussion

What does repercussion mean?

repercussion means "a remote or indirect consequence of some action". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in repercussion?

repercussion has 4 syllables: re-per-cus-sion. The stress falls on "cus". In IPA it is /ˌɹipɚˈkʌʃən/.

What is another word for repercussion?

Close synonyms include reverberation, recoil, rebound, backlash. 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 repercussion a common word?

repercussion 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 repercussion?

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