spoilation

Questions about spoilation

What does spoilation mean?

spoilation means "the act of stripping and taking by force".

How many syllables are in spoilation?

spoilation has 4 syllables and divides as spo-i-la-tion under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for spoilation?

Close synonyms include spoil, spoliation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation. 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 spoilation a common word?

spoilation 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.