susurration

Other forms of susurration

plural

susurrations·

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 susurration

What does susurration mean?

susurration means "the indistinct sound of people whispering". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in susurration?

susurration has 5 syllables: su-sur-ra-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for susurration?

Close synonyms include susurrus, whisper, whispering, voicelessness. 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 susurration a common word?

susurration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.