blueprint

Other forms of blueprint

plural

blueprints·

past tense

blueprinted·

present participle

blueprinting·

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 blueprint

What does blueprint mean?

blueprint means "something intended as a guide for making something else". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blueprint?

blueprint has 2 syllables: blue-print. The stress falls on "blue". In IPA it is /ˈbluˌpɹɪnt/.

What is another word for blueprint?

Close synonyms include design, pattern, draft, draught. 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 blueprint a common word?

blueprint 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 blueprint?

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