oddment

Other forms of oddment

plural

oddments·

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 oddment

What does oddment mean?

oddment means "a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oddment?

oddment has 2 syllables: odd-ment. The stress falls on "odd".

What is another word for oddment?

Close synonyms include end, remainder, remnant, curio, curiosity. 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 oddment a common word?

oddment 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.