portrayal

Other forms of portrayal

plural

portrayals·

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 portrayal

What does portrayal mean?

portrayal means "a word picture of a person's appearance and character". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in portrayal?

portrayal has 3 syllables: por-tra-yal. The stress falls on "tra". In IPA it is /pɔɹˈtɹeɪəl/.

What is another word for portrayal?

Close synonyms include portraiture, portrait, characterization, enactment, personation. 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 portrayal a common word?

portrayal 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.

What rhymes with portrayal?

1 word rhymes with portrayal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.