requirement

Other forms of requirement

plural

requirements·

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 requirement

What does requirement mean?

requirement means "required activity". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in requirement?

requirement has 3 syllables: req-uire-ment. The stress falls on "uire". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹmənt/.

What is another word for requirement?

Close synonyms include demand, necessity, essential, requisite, necessary. 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 requirement a common word?

requirement 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.