harassment

Other forms of harassment

plural

harassments·

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 harassment

What does harassment mean?

harassment means "a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in harassment?

harassment has 3 syllables: ha-ras-sment. The stress falls on "ras". In IPA it is /hɚˈæsmənt/.

What is another word for harassment?

Close synonyms include torment, molestation. 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 harassment a common word?

harassment is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.