therapy

Other forms of therapy

plural

therapies·

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 therapy

What does therapy mean?

therapy means "(medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)".

How many syllables are in therapy?

therapy has 3 syllables: ther-a-py. The stress falls on "ther". In IPA it is /ˈθɛɹəpi/.

Is therapy a common word?

therapy 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 therapy?

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