maltreatment

Other forms of maltreatment

plural

maltreatments·

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 maltreatment

What does maltreatment mean?

maltreatment means "cruel or inhumane treatment".

How many syllables are in maltreatment?

maltreatment has 3 syllables: mal-treat-ment. The stress falls on "treat". In IPA it is /mælˈtɹitmənt/.

What is another word for maltreatment?

Close synonyms include ill-treatment, ill-usage, abuse. 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 maltreatment a common word?

maltreatment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 maltreatment?

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