regime

Other forms of regime

plural

regimes·

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 regime

What does regime mean?

regime means "the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in regime?

regime has 2 syllables: re-gime. The stress falls on "gime". In IPA it is /ɹəˈʒim/.

What is another word for regime?

Close synonyms include government, authorities, regimen. 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 regime a common word?

regime 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.