adherence

Other forms of adherence

plural

adherences·

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 adherence

What does adherence mean?

adherence means "faithful support for a cause or political party or religion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adherence?

adherence has 3 syllables: ad-her-ence. The stress falls on "her". In IPA it is /ədˈhɪɹəns/.

What is another word for adherence?

Close synonyms include attachment, adhesion, adhesiveness, adhesion, bond. 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 adherence a common word?

adherence is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 adherence?

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