success

Other forms of success

plural

successes·

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 success

What does success mean?

success means "an event that accomplishes its intended purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in success?

success has 2 syllables: suc-cess. The stress falls on "cess". In IPA it is /səkˈsɛs/.

What is another word for success?

Close synonyms include achiever, winner, succeeder. 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.

What is the opposite of success?

The recorded antonyms are failure, failure.

Is success a common word?

success is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 success?

9 words rhyme with success. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.