infringement

Other forms of infringement

plural

infringements·

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 infringement

What does infringement mean?

infringement means "an act that disregards an agreement or a right". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in infringement?

infringement has 3 syllables: in-frin-gement. The stress falls on "frin". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈfɹɪndʒmənt/.

What is another word for infringement?

Close synonyms include violation, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, infraction, violation. 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 infringement a common word?

infringement 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.