dividend

Other forms of dividend

plural

dividends·

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 dividend

What does dividend mean?

dividend means "that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dividend?

dividend has 3 syllables: div-i-dend. The stress falls on "div". In IPA it is /ˈdɪvɪˌdɛnd/.

Is dividend a common word?

dividend 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.

What rhymes with dividend?

1 word rhymes with dividend. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.