🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Inflection"
50 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "inflection" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| affection | 3 | noun | A feeling of love or strong attachment. |
| connection | 3 | noun | A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people. |
| introspection | 4 | noun | (psychology) A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states. |
| reflection | 3 | noun | The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected. |
| predilection | 4 | noun | A condition of favoring or liking; a tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition. |
| insurrection | 4 | noun | (uncountable) The action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; (countable) an instance of this; a revolt, an uprising; specifically, one that is at an initial stage or limited in nature. |
| recollection | 4 | noun | The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory. |
| disconnection | 4 | noun | Absence of rapport; the nonexistence of, or a breakdown of, effective communication. |
| section | 2 | noun | A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something. |
| protection | 3 | noun | The process of keeping (something or someone) safe. |
| projection | 3 | noun | The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something. |
| dissection | 3 | noun | (figurative) A minute and detailed examination or analysis. |
| intersection | 4 | noun | The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares. |
| collection | 3 | noun | A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together. |
| rejection | 3 | noun | The act of rejecting. |
| direction | 3 | noun | A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston). |
| confection | 3 | noun | A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake. |
| complexion | 3 | noun | The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face. |
| selection | 3 | noun | The process or act of selecting. |
| disaffection | 4 | noun | Alienation; loss of loyalty. |
| circumspection | 4 | noun | Caution, watchfulness, or vigilance fueled by such awareness. |
| inspection | 3 | noun | The act of examining something, often closely. |
| objection | 3 | noun | A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition (generally followed by the adposition to). |
| perfection | 3 | noun | The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing substandard remains; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence. |
| defection | 3 | noun | An act or incidence of defecting. |
| convection | 3 | noun | (physics) The transmission of heat in a fluid by the circulation of currents. |
| resurrection | 4 | noun | The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again. |
| erection | 3 | noun | (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood. |
| interjection | 4 | noun | (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion. |
| imperfection | 4 | noun | (countable) Something that makes something else less than perfect; a blemish, impurity, error, etc. |
| ejection | 3 | noun | The act of ejecting. |
| advection | 3 | noun | (meteorology, earth science, physical chemistry) The horizontal movement of a body of atmosphere (or other fluid) along with a concurrent transport of its temperature, humidity etc. |
| interconnection | 5 | noun | A connection (physical or logical) between multiple things |
| infection | 3 | noun | An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host. |
| correction | 3 | noun | The act of correcting. |
| flexion | 2 | noun | The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension. |
| transection | 3 | noun | (surgery) A transverse cut or division. |
| detection | 3 | noun | The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised. |
| midsection | 3 | noun | (anatomy) The midriff; the section of the human torso, from below the chest to above the waist. |
| overprotection | 5 | noun | The act of overprotecting. |
| mental rejection | 5 | noun | doubt about the truth of something |
| injection | 3 | noun | The act of injecting, or something that is injected. |
| election | 3 | noun | A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote. |
| natural selection | 6 | noun | (evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes. |
| cross section | 3 | noun | A section formed by a plane cutting through an object, usually at right angles to an axis. |
| angle of reflection | 6 | noun | (optics) The angle between the perpendicular and a ray reflected from a surface |
| general election | 6 | noun | An election, usually held at regular intervals, in which candidates are elected in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a nation. |
| urinary tract infection | 8 | noun | (pathology) An infection that affects part of the urinary tract. |
| primary election | 6 | noun | (politics) A preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party. |
| redirection | 4 | noun | (Internet) The automated process of taking a user to a location other than the one selected. |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Inflection"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| conviction | 3 | noun | (countable) A firmly held belief. |
| perception | 3 | noun | The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information. |
| perspective | 3 | noun | (figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience. |
| conception | 3 | noun | The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote. |
| deception | 3 | noun | An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy. |
| action | 2 | noun | The effort of performing or doing something. |
| expression | 3 | noun | The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. |
| affliction | 3 | noun | A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony. |
| oppression | 3 | noun | The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. |
| reckon | 2 | verb | (colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause |
| perplexing | 3 | That causes perplexity. | |
| spectrum | 2 | noun | Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc. |
| impression | 3 | noun | The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person. |
| induction | 3 | noun | An act of inducting. |
| question | 2 | noun | A worded or expressed sentence, phrase, or only a word on its own, which asks for information, a reply, or a response; an interrogative. |
| inception | 3 | noun | The creation or beginning of something; the establishment. |
| neglected | 3 | Suffering from neglect; uncared-for. | |
| intention | 3 | noun | A course of action that a person intends to follow. |
| redemption | 3 | noun | (religion) Salvation from sin. |
| tension | 2 | noun | The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other. |
| beckon | 2 | verb | (ambitransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer. |
| suggestion | 3 | noun | (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for) |
| misconception | 4 | noun | A mistaken belief, a wrong idea. |
| friction | 2 | noun | The rubbing of one object or surface against another. |
| diction | 2 | noun | Choice and use of words, especially with regard to effective communication. |
| possession | 3 | noun | Something that is owned. |
| suction | 2 | noun | The process of creating an imbalance in pressure to draw matter from one place to another. |
| destruction | 3 | noun | The act of destroying. |
| infliction | 3 | noun | The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition. |
| nation | 2 | noun | (collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. |
| reception | 3 | noun | The act of receiving. |
| inflected | 3 | (grammar) Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word). | |
| second | 2 | noun | Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two. |
| congestion | 3 | noun | The hindrance or blockage of the passage of something, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding. |
| attention | 3 | noun | (uncountable) Mental focus. |
| mention | 2 | verb | A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. |
| cession | 2 | noun | The giving up of rights, property etc. which one is entitled to. |
| exception | 3 | noun | The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule. |
| lesson | 2 | noun | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| vacation | 3 | noun | An extended period of leisure time away from work or school. |
| flection | 2 | noun | Alternative spelling of flexion. [The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension.] |
| reflecting | 3 | noun | That reflects. |
| infectious | 3 | (pathology, typically of a person) Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens. | |
| self-deception | 4 | noun | The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious. |
| preconception | 4 | noun | An opinion formed before obtaining adequate evidence, especially as the result of bias or prejudice. |
| reflections | 3 | "Reflections" is a 1967 song recorded by American soul music group The Supremes for the Motown label. | |
| session | 2 | noun | A period of time devoted to a particular activity. |
| contraception | 4 | noun | The use of a device or procedure to prevent conception as a result of sexual activity. |
| stepson | 2 | noun | The son of one's spouse from a previous relationship. |
| extrasensory perception | 8 | noun | The supposed ability to obtain information without the use of normal sensory channels. |
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