solacement

Other forms of solacement

plural

solacements·

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 solacement

What does solacement mean?

solacement means "comfort in disappointment or misery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in solacement?

solacement has 4 syllables: so-la-ce-ment. The stress falls on "la".

What is another word for solacement?

Close synonyms include solace, consolation, solace. 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 solacement a common word?

solacement 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.