clemency

Other forms of clemency

plural

clemencies·

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 clemency

What does clemency mean?

clemency means "good weather with comfortable temperatures". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clemency?

clemency has 3 syllables: clem-en-cy. The stress falls on "clem". In IPA it is /ˈklɛmənsi/.

What is another word for clemency?

Close synonyms include mildness, mercifulness, mercy. 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 clemency a common word?

clemency is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.