Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

irregularity

/ɪˌɹɛ.ɡjʊˈlæ.ɹɪ.ti/ noun

Forms irregularities

  1. noun (countable) An instance of being irregular.
  2. noun (uncountable) The state or condition of being irregular, or the extent to which something is irregular.
  3. noun (countable) An object or event that is not regular or ordinary. “an irregularity of surface”
  4. noun (countable) A violation of rules. “An investigation of the irregularities in the company's accounts uncovered a large-scale fraud.”
  5. noun (euphemistic) Irregular bowel movement (e.g. diarrhea or constipation).

Synonyms

abnormality unregularity geometrical irregularity constipation

Antonyms

regularity

Etymology

From Middle French irrégularité, from Medieval Latin irregularitas. Morphologically irregular + -ity.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.

Etymology [Cf. F. irrégularité.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “irregularity”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “irregularity” (best matches first).

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