prison

Other forms of prison

plural

prisons·

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 prison

What does prison mean?

prison means "a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prison?

prison has 2 syllables: pris-on. The stress falls on "pris". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɪzən/.

What is another word for prison?

Close synonyms include prison house, prison house. 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 prison a common word?

prison is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 prison?

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