suffocation

Other forms of suffocation

plural

suffocations·

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 suffocation

What does suffocation mean?

suffocation means "killing by depriving of oxygen". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suffocation?

suffocation has 4 syllables: suf-fo-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌsʌfəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for suffocation?

Close synonyms include asphyxiation, asphyxiation. 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 suffocation a common word?

suffocation 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 suffocation?

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