punishment

Other forms of punishment

plural

punishments·

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 punishment

What does punishment mean?

punishment means "the act of punishing".

How many syllables are in punishment?

punishment has 3 syllables: pun-ish-ment. The stress falls on "pun". In IPA it is /ˈpʌnɪʃmənt/.

What is another word for punishment?

Close synonyms include penalty, penalization, penalisation. 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 punishment a common word?

punishment 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.