one-upmanship

1. 1.

   the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor

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Questions about one-upmanship

What does one-upmanship mean?

one-upmanship means "the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor".

How many syllables are in one-upmanship?

one-upmanship has 4 syllables: on-e-up-man-ship. The stress falls on "e-up". In IPA it is /ˌwʌˈnʌpmənˌʃɪp/.

Is one-upmanship a common word?

one-upmanship 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 one-upmanship?

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