contention

Other forms of contention

plural

contentions·

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 contention

What does contention mean?

contention means "a point asserted as part of an argument". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in contention?

contention has 3 syllables: con-ten-tion. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /kənˈtɛnʃən/.

What is another word for contention?

Close synonyms include controversy, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt. 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 contention a common word?

contention 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 contention?

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