secretariat

Other forms of secretariat

plural

secretariats·

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 secretariat

What does secretariat mean?

secretariat means "an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in secretariat?

secretariat has 5 syllables: sec-re-tar-i-at. The stress falls on "tar". In IPA it is /ˌsɛkɹɪˈtɛɹiət/.

What is another word for secretariat?

Close synonyms include secretariate. 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 secretariat a common word?

secretariat 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 secretariat?

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