trimester

Other forms of trimester

plural

trimesters·

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 trimester

What does trimester mean?

trimester means "a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trimester?

trimester has 3 syllables: tri-mes-ter. The stress falls on "mes". In IPA it is /tɹaɪˈmɛstɚ/.

Is trimester a common word?

trimester 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.

What rhymes with trimester?

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