dungeon

Other forms of dungeon

plural

dungeons·

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 dungeon

What does dungeon mean?

dungeon means "the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dungeon?

dungeon has 2 syllables: dun-geon. The stress falls on "dun". In IPA it is /ˈdʌndʒən/.

What is another word for dungeon?

Close synonyms include keep, donjon. 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 dungeon a common word?

dungeon 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.