embayment

Other forms of embayment

plural

embayments·

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 embayment

What does embayment mean?

embayment means "an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf".

How many syllables are in embayment?

embayment has 3 syllables: em-bay-ment. The stress falls on "bay". In IPA it is /ɛmˈbeɪmənt/.

What is another word for embayment?

Close synonyms include bay. 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 embayment a common word?

embayment 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.