bighorn

Other forms of bighorn

plural

bighorns·

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 bighorn

What does bighorn mean?

bighorn means "a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bighorn?

bighorn has 2 syllables: big-horn. The stress falls on "big". In IPA it is /ˈbɪɡˌhɔɹn/.

What is another word for bighorn?

Close synonyms include Bighorn River, bighorn sheep, cimarron, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep. 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 bighorn a common word?

bighorn 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 bighorn?

6 words rhyme with bighorn. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.