battalion

Other forms of battalion

plural

battalions·

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 battalion

What does battalion mean?

battalion means "an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in battalion?

battalion has 3 syllables: bat-tal-ion. The stress falls on "tal". In IPA it is /bəˈtæljən/.

What is another word for battalion?

Close synonyms include large number, multitude, plurality, pack. 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 battalion a common word?

battalion 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 battalion?

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