conspiracy

Other forms of conspiracy

plural

conspiracies·

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 conspiracy

What does conspiracy mean?

conspiracy means "a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conspiracy?

conspiracy has 4 syllables: con-spir-a-cy. The stress falls on "spir". In IPA it is /kənˈspɪɹəsi/.

What is another word for conspiracy?

Close synonyms include confederacy, cabal, confederacy. 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 conspiracy a common word?

conspiracy 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.