casualty

Other forms of casualty

plural

casualties·

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 casualty

What does casualty mean?

casualty means "someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in casualty?

casualty has 4 syllables: cas-u-al-ty. The stress falls on "cas". In IPA it is /ˈkæʒəwəlti/.

What is another word for casualty?

Close synonyms include injured party, fatal accident. 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 casualty a common word?

casualty is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.