reconnaissance

1. 1.

   the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy)

   “an exchange of fire occurred on a reconnaissance mission”

   Synonymsreconnaissance mission

   Broaderintelligence

   Narrowerreccescoutingair reconnaissancereconnaissance by firereconnaissance in forceshuftielectronic reconnaissance

Other forms of reconnaissance

plural

reconnaissances·

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 reconnaissance

What does reconnaissance mean?

reconnaissance means "the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy)".

How many syllables are in reconnaissance?

reconnaissance has 4 syllables: re-con-nais-sance. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /ɹiˈkɑnəsəns/.

What is another word for reconnaissance?

Close synonyms include reconnaissance mission. 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 reconnaissance a common word?

reconnaissance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.