derangement

Other forms of derangement

plural

derangements·

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 derangement

What does derangement mean?

derangement means "a state of mental disturbance and disorientation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in derangement?

derangement has 4 syllables: de-ran-ge-ment. The stress falls on "ran".

What is another word for derangement?

Close synonyms include mental unsoundness, unbalance, upset, overthrow. 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 derangement a common word?

derangement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.