embayment
/ɪmˈbeɪmənt/noun
embayment is spelled E-M-B-A-Y-M-E-N-T: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, embayment means “A bay. (the water)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of embayment is embayments.
How many letters and syllables are in embayment?
| Letters | 9: E-M-B-A-Y-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is embayment?
Embayment appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce embayment?
- /ɪmˈbeɪmənt/
Embayment has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of embayment
- embayments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does embayment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A bay. (the water)
- 2
The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
- 3
A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
- 4
The process by which a bay is formed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Embayment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Bucht, Einbuchtung , Buchtuferline |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does embayment come from?
From em- + bay + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).