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 and divides as sup-pli-ca-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.