atonement

Other forms of atonement

plural

atonements·

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 atonement

What does atonement mean?

atonement means "compensation for a wrong". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in atonement?

atonement has 3 syllables: ato-ne-ment. The stress falls on "ne". In IPA it is /əˈtoʊnmənt/.

What is another word for atonement?

Close synonyms include expiation, satisfaction, expiation, propitiation. 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 atonement a common word?

atonement 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.