reproduction

Other forms of reproduction

plural

reproductions·

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 reproduction

What does reproduction mean?

reproduction means "the process of generating offspring". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reproduction?

reproduction has 4 syllables: re-pro-duc-tion. The stress falls on "duc". In IPA it is /ˌɹipɹəˈdʌkʃən/.

What is another word for reproduction?

Close synonyms include reproductive memory, replica, replication, replication, procreation. 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 reproduction a common word?

reproduction 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 reproduction?

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