accidence

1. 1.

   the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words

   Synonymsinflectional morphology

   Broadermorphology

Other forms of accidence

plural

accidences·

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 accidence

What does accidence mean?

accidence means "the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words".

How many syllables are in accidence?

accidence has 3 syllables: ac-ci-dence. The stress falls on "ac".

What is another word for accidence?

Close synonyms include inflectional morphology. 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 accidence a common word?

accidence 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.