birthright

Other forms of birthright

plural

birthrights·

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 birthright

What does birthright mean?

birthright means "a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in birthright?

birthright has 2 syllables: bir-thright. The stress falls on "bir". In IPA it is /ˈbɝˌθɹaɪt/.

What is another word for birthright?

Close synonyms include patrimony. 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 birthright a common word?

birthright 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 birthright?

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