revetement

Questions about revetement

What does revetement mean?

revetement means "a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment".

How many syllables are in revetement?

revetement has 4 syllables and divides as re-ve-te-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for revetement?

Close synonyms include revetment, stone facing. 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 revetement a common word?

revetement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.