displacement

Other forms of displacement

plural

displacements·

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 displacement

What does displacement mean?

displacement means "act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in displacement?

displacement has 3 syllables: di-splace-ment. The stress falls on "splace". In IPA it is /dɪˈspleɪsmənt/.

What is another word for displacement?

Close synonyms include supplanting, shift, translation, displacement reaction, deracination. 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 displacement a common word?

displacement is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.