backrest

Other forms of backrest

plural

backrests·

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 backrest

What does backrest mean?

backrest means "a support that you can lean against while sitting".

How many syllables are in backrest?

backrest has 2 syllables: bac-krest. The stress falls on "bac". In IPA it is /ˈbæˌkɹɛst/.

What is another word for backrest?

Close synonyms include back. 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 backrest a common word?

backrest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 backrest?

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