weapon

Other forms of weapon

plural

weapons·

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 weapon

What does weapon mean?

weapon means "any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in weapon?

weapon has 2 syllables: weap-on. The stress falls on "weap". In IPA it is /ˈwɛpən/.

What is another word for weapon?

Close synonyms include arm, weapon system, artillery. 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 weapon a common word?

weapon is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.