lieutenant

Other forms of lieutenant

plural

lieutenants·

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 lieutenant

What does lieutenant mean?

lieutenant means "a commissioned military officer". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lieutenant?

lieutenant has 3 syllables: lieu-ten-ant. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /luˈtɛnənt/.

What is another word for lieutenant?

Close synonyms include police lieutenant, deputy. 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 lieutenant a common word?

lieutenant 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 lieutenant?

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