ascendancy

Other forms of ascendancy

plural

ascendancies·

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 ascendancy

What does ascendancy mean?

ascendancy means "the state that exists when one person or group has power over another".

How many syllables are in ascendancy?

ascendancy has 4 syllables: a-scen-dan-cy. The stress falls on "scen". In IPA it is /əˈsɛndənsi/.

What is another word for ascendancy?

Close synonyms include dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control. 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 ascendancy a common word?

ascendancy 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.

What rhymes with ascendancy?

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