occupancy

Other forms of occupancy

plural

occupancies·

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 occupancy

What does occupancy mean?

occupancy means "an act of being a tenant or occupant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in occupancy?

occupancy has 4 syllables: oc-cu-pan-cy. The stress falls on "oc". In IPA it is /ˈɑkjəpənsi/.

What is another word for occupancy?

Close synonyms include tenancy, occupation, moving in. 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 occupancy a common word?

occupancy 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.