reapportionment

Questions about reapportionment

What does reapportionment mean?

reapportionment 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 reapportionment?

reapportionment has 5 syllables: re-ap-por-tion-ment. The stress falls on "por". In IPA it is /ˌɹiəˈpɔɹʃənmənt/.

What is another word for reapportionment?

Close synonyms include reallotment, 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 reapportionment a common word?

reapportionment 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.

What rhymes with reapportionment?

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