redundancy

Other forms of redundancy

plural

redundancies·

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 redundancy

What does redundancy mean?

redundancy means "repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in redundancy?

redundancy has 4 syllables: re-dun-dan-cy. The stress falls on "dun". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈdʌndənsi/.

What is another word for redundancy?

Close synonyms include redundance. 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 redundancy a common word?

redundancy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.