submersion

Other forms of submersion

plural

submersions·

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 submersion

What does submersion mean?

submersion means "sinking until covered completely with water". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in submersion?

submersion has 3 syllables: sub-mer-sion. The stress falls on "mer". In IPA it is /səbˈmɝʒən/.

What is another word for submersion?

Close synonyms include submergence, submerging, immersion, immersion, ducking. 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 submersion a common word?

submersion 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 submersion?

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