emplacement

Other forms of emplacement

plural

emplacements·

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 emplacement

What does emplacement mean?

emplacement means "military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in emplacement?

emplacement has 3 syllables: em-place-ment. The stress falls on "place". In IPA it is /ɪmˈpleɪsmənt/.

What is another word for emplacement?

Close synonyms include placement, location, locating, position, positioning. 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 emplacement a common word?

emplacement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 emplacement?

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