certainty

Other forms of certainty

plural

certainties·

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 certainty

What does certainty mean?

certainty means "the state of being certain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in certainty?

certainty has 3 syllables: cer-tain-ty. The stress falls on "cer". In IPA it is /ˈsɝtənti/.

What is another word for certainty?

Close synonyms include sure thing, foregone conclusion. 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.

What is the opposite of certainty?

The recorded antonyms are uncertainty, uncertainty.

Is certainty a common word?

certainty 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 certainty?

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