entreaty

Other forms of entreaty

plural

entreaties·

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 entreaty

What does entreaty mean?

entreaty means "earnest or urgent request".

How many syllables are in entreaty?

entreaty has 3 syllables: en-trea-ty. The stress falls on "trea". In IPA it is /ɛnˈtɹiti/.

What is another word for entreaty?

Close synonyms include prayer, appeal. 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 entreaty a common word?

entreaty 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 entreaty?

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