relevance

Other forms of relevance

plural

relevances·

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 relevance

What does relevance mean?

relevance means "the relation of something to the matter at hand".

How many syllables are in relevance?

relevance has 3 syllables: rel-e-vance. The stress falls on "rel". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛləvəns/.

What is another word for relevance?

Close synonyms include relevancy. 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.

What is the opposite of relevance?

The recorded antonyms are irrelevance.

Is relevance a common word?

relevance 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.

What rhymes with relevance?

1 word rhymes with relevance. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.