secretion

Other forms of secretion

plural

secretions·

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 secretion

What does secretion mean?

secretion means "the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in secretion?

secretion has 3 syllables: se-cre-tion. The stress falls on "cre". In IPA it is /səˈkɹiʃən/.

What is another word for secretion?

Close synonyms include secernment. 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 secretion a common word?

secretion is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 secretion?

1 word rhymes with secretion. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.