phenomenon

1. 1.

   any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning

   Broaderprocess

   Narrowernatural phenomenonlevitationmetempsychosisconsequenceluckpulsation
2. 2.

   a remarkable development

   Broaderdevelopment

Other forms of phenomenon

plural

phenomena

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 phenomenon

What does phenomenon mean?

phenomenon means "any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in phenomenon?

phenomenon has 4 syllables: phe-no-me-non. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /fəˈnɑməˌnɑn/.

Is phenomenon a common word?

phenomenon 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.

What rhymes with phenomenon?

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