circumstance

Other forms of circumstance

plural

circumstances·

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 circumstance

What does circumstance mean?

circumstance means "a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in circumstance?

circumstance has 3 syllables: cir-cum-stance. The stress falls on "cir". In IPA it is /ˈsɝkəmˌstæns/.

What is another word for circumstance?

Close synonyms include context, setting, condition, consideration. 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 circumstance a common word?

circumstance 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 circumstance?

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