ammunition

Other forms of ammunition

plural

ammunitions·

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 ammunition

What does ammunition mean?

ammunition means "projectiles to be fired from a gun". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ammunition?

ammunition has 4 syllables: am-mu-nit-ion. The stress falls on "nit". In IPA it is /ˌæmjəˈnɪʃən/.

What is another word for ammunition?

Close synonyms include ammo. 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 ammunition a common word?

ammunition is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 ammunition?

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