appurtenance

Other forms of appurtenance

plural

appurtenances·

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 appurtenance

What does appurtenance mean?

appurtenance means "equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appurtenance?

appurtenance has 4 syllables and divides as ap-pur-te-nance under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for appurtenance?

Close synonyms include gear, paraphernalia, accessory, supplement, add-on. 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 appurtenance a common word?

appurtenance 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.