pension

Other forms of pension

plural

pensions·

past tense

pensioned·

present participle

pensioning·

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 pension

What does pension mean?

pension means "a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pension?

pension has 2 syllables: pen-sion. The stress falls on "pen". In IPA it is /ˈpɛnʃən/.

What is another word for pension?

Close synonyms include pension off. 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 pension a common word?

pension 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.