equipment

Other forms of equipment

plural

equipments·

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 equipment

What does equipment mean?

equipment means "an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service".

How many syllables are in equipment?

equipment has 3 syllables: eq-uip-ment. The stress falls on "uip". In IPA it is /ɪˈkwɪpmənt/.

Is equipment a common word?

equipment is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.