recovery

Other forms of recovery

plural

recoveries·

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 recovery

What does recovery mean?

recovery means "return to an original state". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recovery?

recovery has 3 syllables: reco-ver-y. The stress falls on "ver". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈkʌvɹi/.

What is another word for recovery?

Close synonyms include convalescence, recuperation, retrieval. 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 recovery a common word?

recovery 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.