enactment

Other forms of enactment

plural

enactments·

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 enactment

What does enactment mean?

enactment means "the passing of a law by a legislative body". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enactment?

enactment has 3 syllables: e-nact-ment. The stress falls on "nact". In IPA it is /ɛˈnæktmənt/.

What is another word for enactment?

Close synonyms include passage, act, portrayal, characterization, personation. 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 enactment a common word?

enactment 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 enactment?

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