utterance

Other forms of utterance

plural

utterances·

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 utterance

What does utterance mean?

utterance means "the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication".

How many syllables are in utterance?

utterance has 3 syllables: ut-te-rance. The stress falls on "ut". In IPA it is /ˈʌtɚəns/.

What is another word for utterance?

Close synonyms include vocalization. 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 utterance a common word?

utterance 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.