lesson

Other forms of lesson

plural

lessons·

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 lesson

What does lesson mean?

lesson means "a unit of instruction". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lesson?

lesson has 2 syllables: les-son. The stress falls on "les". In IPA it is /ˈlɛsən/.

What is another word for lesson?

Close synonyms include example, deterrent example, object lesson, moral. 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 lesson a common word?

lesson is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 lesson?

1 word rhymes with lesson. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.