apartment

a room or set of rooms fitted especially with housekeeping facilities and usually leased as a dwelling.

The first known use: circa 1645

Word Structure

9 Letters, 3 Syllable

apartment

8 Phonemes

ə p ar t m ə n t

onset, rime

- -

Morpheme

apartment

ə = schwa

Sentence Examples

We lived in an apartment for several years before buying a house.

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