twelvemonth

Other forms of twelvemonth

plural

twelvemonths·

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 twelvemonth

What does twelvemonth mean?

twelvemonth means "a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days".

How many syllables are in twelvemonth?

twelvemonth has 3 syllables: twel-ve-month. The stress falls on "twel".

What is another word for twelvemonth?

Close synonyms include year, yr. 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 twelvemonth a common word?

twelvemonth 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.