superintendent

Other forms of superintendent

plural

superintendents·

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 superintendent

What does superintendent mean?

superintendent means "a person who directs and manages an organization". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in superintendent?

superintendent has 5 syllables: su-pe-rin-ten-dent. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /ˌsupɚənˈtɛndənt/.

What is another word for superintendent?

Close synonyms include overseer, super. 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 superintendent a common word?

superintendent 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.

What rhymes with superintendent?

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