birmingham

Other forms of birmingham

plural

birminghams·

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 birmingham

What does birmingham mean?

birmingham means "the largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in birmingham?

birmingham has 3 syllables: bir-ming-ham. The stress falls on "bir". In IPA it is /ˈbɝmɪŋˌhæm/.

What is another word for birmingham?

Close synonyms include Pittsburgh of the South, Brummagem. 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 birmingham a common word?

birmingham 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.

What rhymes with birmingham?

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