bedstead

Other forms of bedstead

plural

bedsteads·

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 bedstead

What does bedstead mean?

bedstead means "the framework of a bed".

How many syllables are in bedstead?

bedstead has 3 syllables: bed-ste-ad. The stress falls on "bed".

What is another word for bedstead?

Close synonyms include bedframe. 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 bedstead a common word?

bedstead 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.