blowhole

Other forms of blowhole

plural

blowholes·

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 blowhole

What does blowhole mean?

blowhole means "the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blowhole?

blowhole has 2 syllables: blo-whole. The stress falls on "blo". In IPA it is /ˈbloʊˌhoʊl/.

What is another word for blowhole?

Close synonyms include vent, venthole, vent-hole. 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 blowhole a common word?

blowhole 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 blowhole?

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