blandishment

Other forms of blandishment

plural

blandishments·

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 blandishment

What does blandishment mean?

blandishment means "flattery intended to persuade". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blandishment?

blandishment has 3 syllables: blan-dish-ment. The stress falls on "blan". In IPA it is /ˈblændɪʃmənt/.

What is another word for blandishment?

Close synonyms include cajolery, palaver, wheedling. 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 blandishment a common word?

blandishment 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.