indorsement

Other forms of indorsement

plural

indorsements·

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 indorsement

What does indorsement mean?

indorsement means "a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indorsement?

indorsement has 4 syllables and divides as in-dor-se-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for indorsement?

Close synonyms include endorsement, blurb, second, secondment, endorsement. 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 indorsement a common word?

indorsement 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.