usurpation

Other forms of usurpation

plural

usurpations·

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 usurpation

What does usurpation mean?

usurpation means "entry to another's property without right or permission". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in usurpation?

usurpation has 4 syllables: u-sur-pa-tion. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˌjusɚˈpeɪʃən/.

What is another word for usurpation?

Close synonyms include trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion. 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 usurpation a common word?

usurpation 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 usurpation?

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