oddments

Other forms of oddments

plural

oddmentses·

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 oddments

What does oddments mean?

oddments means "a motley assortment of things".

How many syllables are in oddments?

oddments has 2 syllables: odd-ments. The stress falls on "odd".

What is another word for oddments?

Close synonyms include odds and ends, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash. 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 oddments a common word?

oddments 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.