artifact

Other forms of artifact

plural

artifacts·

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 artifact

What does artifact mean?

artifact means "a man-made object taken as a whole".

How many syllables are in artifact?

artifact has 3 syllables: ar-ti-fact. The stress falls on "ar". In IPA it is /ˈɑɹtəˌfækt/.

What is another word for artifact?

Close synonyms include artefact. 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.

What is the opposite of artifact?

The recorded antonyms are natural object.

Is artifact a common word?

artifact is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 artifact?

1 word rhymes with artifact. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.