supplication

Other forms of supplication

plural

supplications·

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 supplication

What does supplication mean?

supplication means "a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in supplication?

supplication has 5 syllables: sup-pli-ca-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for supplication?

Close synonyms include invocation, plea, prayer. 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 supplication a common word?

supplication 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.