stratification

Other forms of stratification

plural

stratifications·

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 stratification

What does stratification mean?

stratification means "the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stratification?

stratification has 5 syllables: strat-i-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌstɹætəfɪˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for stratification?

Close synonyms include social stratification. 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 stratification a common word?

stratification 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 stratification?

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