census

Other forms of census

plural

censuses·

past tense

censused·

present participle

censusing·

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 census

What does census mean?

census means "a periodic count of the population". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in census?

census has 2 syllables: cen-sus. The stress falls on "cen". In IPA it is /ˈsɛnsəs/.

What is another word for census?

Close synonyms include nose count, nosecount. 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 census a common word?

census 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.

What rhymes with census?

1 word rhymes with census. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.