bonehead

Other forms of bonehead

plural

boneheads·

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 bonehead

What does bonehead mean?

bonehead means "a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence".

How many syllables are in bonehead?

bonehead has 4 syllables: bo-ne-he-ad. The stress falls on "ne".

What is another word for bonehead?

Close synonyms include dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, lunkhead. 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 bonehead a common word?

bonehead 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.