survival

Other forms of survival

plural

survivals·

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 survival

What does survival mean?

survival means "a state of surviving; remaining alive". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in survival?

survival has 3 syllables: sur-vi-val. The stress falls on "vi". In IPA it is /sɚˈvaɪvəl/.

What is another word for survival?

Close synonyms include endurance, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection. 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 survival a common word?

survival is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 survival?

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