nonessential

Other forms of nonessential

plural

nonessentials·

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 nonessential

What does nonessential mean?

nonessential means "anything that is not essential". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nonessential?

nonessential has 4 syllables: no-nes-sen-tial. The stress falls on "sen". In IPA it is /ˌnɑnɪˈsɛnʃəl/.

What is another word for nonessential?

Close synonyms include inessential, incidental, accidental. 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 nonessential a common word?

nonessential 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.

What rhymes with nonessential?

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