bounty

Other forms of bounty

plural

bounties·

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 bounty

What does bounty mean?

bounty means "payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bounty?

bounty has 2 syllables: boun-ty. The stress falls on "boun". In IPA it is /ˈbaʊnti/.

What is another word for bounty?

Close synonyms include premium, amplitude, bountifulness, bounteousness, H.M.S. Bounty. 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 bounty a common word?

bounty 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.