solicitation

Other forms of solicitation

plural

solicitations·

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 solicitation

What does solicitation mean?

solicitation means "an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in solicitation?

solicitation has 5 syllables: so-lic-i-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /səˌlɪsɪˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for solicitation?

Close synonyms include appeal, collection, ingathering, allurement. 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 solicitation a common word?

solicitation 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 solicitation?

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