ventilation

Other forms of ventilation

plural

ventilations·

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 ventilation

What does ventilation mean?

ventilation means "the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ventilation?

ventilation has 4 syllables: ven-ti-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌvɛntəˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for ventilation?

Close synonyms include airing, ventilation system, ventilating system, public discussion, breathing. 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 ventilation a common word?

ventilation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 ventilation?

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