confinement

Other forms of confinement

plural

confinements·

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 confinement

What does confinement mean?

confinement means "concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in confinement?

confinement has 3 syllables: con-fine-ment. The stress falls on "fine". In IPA it is /kənˈfaɪnmənt/.

What is another word for confinement?

Close synonyms include parturiency, labor, labour, lying-in, travail. 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 confinement a common word?

confinement 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 confinement?

1 word rhymes with confinement. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.