proficiency

Other forms of proficiency

plural

proficiencies·

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 proficiency

What does proficiency mean?

proficiency means "the quality of having great facility and competence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in proficiency?

proficiency has 4 syllables: pro-fic-ien-cy. The stress falls on "fic". In IPA it is /pɹəˈfɪʃənsi/.

What is another word for proficiency?

Close synonyms include technique. 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 proficiency a common word?

proficiency 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 proficiency?

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