breakdown

Other forms of breakdown

plural

breakdowns·

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 breakdown

What does breakdown mean?

breakdown means "the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breakdown?

breakdown has 2 syllables: break-down. The stress falls on "break". In IPA it is /ˈbɹeɪkˌdaʊn/.

What is another word for breakdown?

Close synonyms include dislocation, crack-up, decomposition, rot, rotting. 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 breakdown a common word?

breakdown 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 breakdown?

22 words rhyme with breakdown. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.