backstairs

Other forms of backstairs

plural

backstairses·

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 backstairs

What does backstairs mean?

backstairs means "a second staircase at the rear of a building". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in backstairs?

backstairs has 2 syllables: back-stairs. The stress falls on "back". In IPA it is /ˈbækˌstɛɹz/.

What is another word for backstairs?

Close synonyms include backstair, furtive. 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 backstairs a common word?

backstairs 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 backstairs?

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