injury

Other forms of injury

plural

injuries·

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 injury

What does injury mean?

injury means "any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in injury?

injury has 3 syllables: in-ju-ry. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪndʒɚi/.

What is another word for injury?

Close synonyms include hurt, harm, trauma, accidental injury, wound. 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 injury a common word?

injury is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.