betterment

Other forms of betterment

plural

betterments·

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 betterment

What does betterment mean?

betterment means "a change for the better; progress in development". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in betterment?

betterment has 3 syllables: bet-ter-ment. The stress falls on "bet". In IPA it is /ˈbɛtɚmənt/.

What is another word for betterment?

Close synonyms include improvement, advance, amelioration, melioration. 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 betterment a common word?

betterment is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.