estrangement

Other forms of estrangement

plural

estrangements·

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 estrangement

What does estrangement mean?

estrangement means "separation resulting from hostility". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in estrangement?

estrangement has 3 syllables: e-stran-gement. The stress falls on "stran". In IPA it is /ɪˈstɹeɪndʒmənt/.

What is another word for estrangement?

Close synonyms include alienation, alienation, disaffection. 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 estrangement a common word?

estrangement is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.