supplanting

1. 1.

   act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

   Synonymsdisplacement

   Broaderreplacement

Other forms of supplanting

plural

supplantings·

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 supplanting

What does supplanting mean?

supplanting means "act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics".

How many syllables are in supplanting?

supplanting has 3 syllables: sup-plan-ting. The stress falls on "plan". In IPA it is /səˈplæntɪŋ/.

What is another word for supplanting?

Close synonyms include displacement. 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 supplanting a common word?

supplanting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 supplanting?

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