lanyard

Other forms of lanyard

plural

lanyards·

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 lanyard

What does lanyard mean?

lanyard means "a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lanyard?

lanyard has 2 syllables: lan-yard. The stress falls on "lan". In IPA it is /ˈlænjɚd/.

What is another word for lanyard?

Close synonyms include laniard, laniard, laniard. 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 lanyard a common word?

lanyard 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.