compartment

Other forms of compartment

plural

compartments·

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 compartment

What does compartment mean?

compartment means "a space into which an area is subdivided". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in compartment?

compartment has 3 syllables: com-part-ment. The stress falls on "part". In IPA it is /kəmˈpɑɹtmənt/.

Is compartment a common word?

compartment 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 compartment?

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