regiment

Other forms of regiment

plural

regiments·

past tense

regimented·

present participle

regimenting·

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 regiment

What does regiment mean?

regiment means "subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in regiment?

regiment has 3 syllables: reg-i-ment. The stress falls on "reg". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛdʒəmənt/.

Is regiment a common word?

regiment 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.