bawd

Other forms of bawd

plural

bawds·

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 bawd

What does bawd mean?

bawd means "a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money".

How many syllables are in bawd?

bawd has 1 syllable: bawd. In IPA it is /ˈbɔd/.

What is another word for bawd?

Close synonyms include prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, tart. 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 bawd a common word?

bawd is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 bawd?

1 word rhymes with bawd. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.