vestment

Other forms of vestment

plural

vestments·

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 vestment

What does vestment mean?

vestment means "gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy".

How many syllables are in vestment?

vestment has 2 syllables: vest-ment. The stress falls on "vest". In IPA it is /ˈvɛstmɛnt/.

Is vestment a common word?

vestment 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.