kinship

Other forms of kinship

plural

kinships·

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 kinship

What does kinship mean?

kinship means "a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kinship?

kinship has 2 syllables: kin-ship. The stress falls on "kin". In IPA it is /ˈkɪnˌʃɪp/.

What is another word for kinship?

Close synonyms include affinity, family relationship, relationship. 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 kinship a common word?

kinship 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.

What rhymes with kinship?

54 words rhyme with kinship. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.