bloodshed

Other forms of bloodshed

plural

bloodsheds·

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 bloodshed

What does bloodshed mean?

bloodshed means "the shedding of blood resulting in murder". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bloodshed?

bloodshed has 2 syllables: blood-shed. The stress falls on "blood". In IPA it is /ˈblʌdˌʃɛd/.

What is another word for bloodshed?

Close synonyms include gore, bloodbath, bloodletting, battue. 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 bloodshed a common word?

bloodshed 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 bloodshed?

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