liaison

Other forms of liaison

plural

liaisons·

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 liaison

What does liaison mean?

liaison means "a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liaison?

liaison has 3 syllables: li-ai-son. The stress falls on "ai". In IPA it is /liˈeɪˌzɑn/.

What is another word for liaison?

Close synonyms include affair, affaire, intimacy, involvement, amour. 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 liaison a common word?

liaison is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 liaison?

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