shipment

Other forms of shipment

plural

shipments·

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 shipment

What does shipment mean?

shipment means "goods carried by a large vehicle". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shipment?

shipment has 2 syllables: ship-ment. The stress falls on "ship". In IPA it is /ˈʃɪpmənt/.

What is another word for shipment?

Close synonyms include cargo, lading, freight, load, loading. 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 shipment a common word?

shipment 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.