bathroom

Other forms of bathroom

plural

bathrooms·

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 bathroom

What does bathroom mean?

bathroom means "a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bathroom?

bathroom has 2 syllables: bat-hroom. The stress falls on "bat". In IPA it is /ˈbæˌθɹum/.

What is another word for bathroom?

Close synonyms include toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john. 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 bathroom a common word?

bathroom is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.