beehive

Other forms of beehive

plural

beehives·

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 beehive

What does beehive mean?

beehive means "any workplace where people are very busy". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beehive?

beehive has 2 syllables: bee-hive. The stress falls on "bee". In IPA it is /ˈbiˌhaɪv/.

What is another word for beehive?

Close synonyms include hive, hive. 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 beehive a common word?

beehive 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 beehive?

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