priority

Other forms of priority

plural

priorities·

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 priority

What does priority mean?

priority means "status established in order of importance or urgency". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in priority?

priority has 4 syllables: pri-o-ri-ty. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /pɹaɪˈɔɹəti/.

What is another word for priority?

Close synonyms include precedence, precedency, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority. 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.

What is the opposite of priority?

The recorded antonyms are posteriority.

Is priority a common word?

priority 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 priority?

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