vocation

Other forms of vocation

plural

vocations·

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 vocation

What does vocation mean?

vocation means "the particular occupation for which you are trained". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vocation?

vocation has 3 syllables: vo-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /voʊˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for vocation?

Close synonyms include career, calling, occupational group. 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 vocation a common word?

vocation 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 vocation?

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