bathtub

Other forms of bathtub

plural

bathtubs·

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 bathtub

What does bathtub mean?

bathtub means "a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body".

How many syllables are in bathtub?

bathtub has 2 syllables: bath-tub. The stress falls on "bath". In IPA it is /ˈbæθtəb/.

What is another word for bathtub?

Close synonyms include bathing tub, tub. 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 bathtub a common word?

bathtub is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.