verification

Other forms of verification

plural

verifications·

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 verification

What does verification mean?

verification means "additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in verification?

verification has 5 syllables: ver-i-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌvɛɹəfəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for verification?

Close synonyms include confirmation, check, substantiation. 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 verification a common word?

verification 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 verification?

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