replacement

Other forms of replacement

plural

replacements·

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 replacement

What does replacement mean?

replacement means "the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in replacement?

replacement has 3 syllables: re-place-ment. The stress falls on "place". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/.

What is another word for replacement?

Close synonyms include replacing, surrogate, alternate, substitution, permutation. 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 replacement a common word?

replacement 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.

What rhymes with replacement?

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