astronaut

Other forms of astronaut

plural

astronauts·

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 astronaut

What does astronaut mean?

astronaut means "a person trained to travel in a spacecraft".

How many syllables are in astronaut?

astronaut has 3 syllables: as-tro-naut. The stress falls on "as". In IPA it is /ˈæstɹəˌnɑt/.

What is another word for astronaut?

Close synonyms include spaceman, cosmonaut. 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 astronaut a common word?

astronaut is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with astronaut?

6 words rhyme with astronaut. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.