complaint

Other forms of complaint

plural

complaints·

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 complaint

What does complaint mean?

complaint means "an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in complaint?

complaint has 2 syllables: com-plaint. The stress falls on "plaint". In IPA it is /kəmˈpleɪnt/.

What is another word for complaint?

Close synonyms include ailment, ill, charge. 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 complaint a common word?

complaint is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.