hinderance

Other forms of hinderance

plural

hinderances·

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 hinderance

What does hinderance mean?

hinderance means "something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hinderance?

hinderance has 3 syllables: hin-de-rance. The stress falls on "hin".

What is another word for hinderance?

Close synonyms include hindrance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk. 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 hinderance a common word?

hinderance 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.