pennant

Other forms of pennant

plural

pennants·

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 pennant

What does pennant mean?

pennant means "the award given to the champion". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pennant?

pennant has 2 syllables: pen-nant. The stress falls on "pen". In IPA it is /ˈpɛnənt/.

What is another word for pennant?

Close synonyms include crown, pennon, streamer, waft. 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 pennant a common word?

pennant 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.