consignment

Other forms of consignment

plural

consignments·

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 consignment

What does consignment mean?

consignment means "goods carried by a large vehicle". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in consignment?

consignment has 3 syllables: con-sign-ment. The stress falls on "sign". In IPA it is /kənˈsaɪnmənt/.

What is another word for consignment?

Close synonyms include cargo, lading, freight, load, loading. 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 consignment a common word?

consignment 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 consignment?

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