Breadcrumb Home > Thesaurus > W Synonyms of word stress Find synonyms for: Noun1. word stress, word accent, stress, emphasis, accentusage: the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic wordWordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. ✖ Related Content Daily Word Quiz: tautology Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language