diplomat

Other forms of diplomat

plural

diplomats·

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 diplomat

What does diplomat mean?

diplomat means "an official engaged in international negotiations". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diplomat?

diplomat has 3 syllables: dip-lo-mat. The stress falls on "dip". In IPA it is /ˈdɪpləˌmæt/.

What is another word for diplomat?

Close synonyms include diplomatist. 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 diplomat a common word?

diplomat 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 diplomat?

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