compendium

Other forms of compendium

plural

compendiums·

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 compendium

What does compendium mean?

compendium means "a publication containing a variety of works". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in compendium?

compendium has 4 syllables: com-pen-di-um. The stress falls on "pen". In IPA it is /kəmˈpɛndiəm/.

What is another word for compendium?

Close synonyms include collection. 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 compendium a common word?

compendium 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.