encumbrance

Other forms of encumbrance

plural

encumbrances·

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 encumbrance

What does encumbrance mean?

encumbrance means "an onerous or difficult concern". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in encumbrance?

encumbrance has 3 syllables: en-cum-brance. The stress falls on "en".

What is another word for encumbrance?

Close synonyms include burden, load, incumbrance, onus, incumbrance. 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 encumbrance a common word?

encumbrance 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.