option

Other forms of option

plural

options·

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 option

What does option mean?

option means "the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in option?

option has 2 syllables: op-tion. The stress falls on "op". In IPA it is /ˈɑpʃən/.

What is another word for option?

Close synonyms include alternative, choice, choice, selection, pick. 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 option a common word?

option is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.