confectionery

Other forms of confectionery

plural

confectioneries·

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 confectionery

What does confectionery mean?

confectionery means "candy and other sweets considered collectively". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in confectionery?

confectionery has 5 syllables: con-fec-tio-ner-y. The stress falls on "fec". In IPA it is /kənˈfɛkʃəˌnɛɹi/.

What is another word for confectionery?

Close synonyms include confectionary, candy store. 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 confectionery a common word?

confectionery 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.

What rhymes with confectionery?

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