truncation

Other forms of truncation

plural

truncations·

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 truncation

What does truncation mean?

truncation means "the property of being truncated or short". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in truncation?

truncation has 3 syllables: trun-ca-tion. The stress falls on "trun". In IPA it is /ˈtɹʌŋˌkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for truncation?

Close synonyms include shortness. 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 truncation a common word?

truncation 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.

What rhymes with truncation?

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