suction

Other forms of suction

plural

suctions·

past tense

suctioned·

present participle

suctioning·

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 suction

What does suction mean?

suction means "a force over an area produced by a pressure difference". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suction?

suction has 2 syllables: suc-tion. The stress falls on "suc". In IPA it is /ˈsʌkʃən/.

What is another word for suction?

Close synonyms include sucking, suck. 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 suction a common word?

suction is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 suction?

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