bedrock

Other forms of bedrock

plural

bedrocks·

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 bedrock

What does bedrock mean?

bedrock means "solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bedrock?

bedrock has 2 syllables: bed-rock. The stress falls on "bed". In IPA it is /ˈbɛˌdɹɑk/.

What is another word for bedrock?

Close synonyms include fundamentals, basics, fundamental principle, basic principle. 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 bedrock a common word?

bedrock 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.