repayment

Other forms of repayment

plural

repayments·

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 repayment

What does repayment mean?

repayment means "the act of returning money received previously". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in repayment?

repayment has 3 syllables: re-pay-ment. The stress falls on "pay". In IPA it is /ɹiˈpeɪmənt/.

What is another word for repayment?

Close synonyms include refund, quittance. 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 repayment a common word?

repayment 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.

What rhymes with repayment?

5 words rhyme with repayment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.