reallotment

Questions about reallotment

What does reallotment mean?

reallotment means "a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)".

How many syllables are in reallotment?

reallotment has 4 syllables and divides as re-al-lot-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for reallotment?

Close synonyms include reapportionment, reallocation. 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 reallotment a common word?

reallotment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.