portent

Other forms of portent

plural

portents·

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 portent

What does portent mean?

portent means "a sign of something about to happen".

How many syllables are in portent?

portent has 2 syllables: por-tent. The stress falls on "por". In IPA it is /ˈpɔɹtɛnt/.

What is another word for portent?

Close synonyms include omen, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy. 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 portent a common word?

portent 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.