fatality

Other forms of fatality

plural

fatalities·

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 fatality

What does fatality mean?

fatality means "a death resulting from an accident or a disaster". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fatality?

fatality has 4 syllables: fa-tal-i-ty. The stress falls on "tal". In IPA it is /fəˈtælɪti/.

What is another word for fatality?

Close synonyms include human death. 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 fatality a common word?

fatality 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.

What rhymes with fatality?

4 words rhyme with fatality. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.