bones

Questions about bones

What does bones mean?

bones means "(used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance".

How many syllables are in bones?

bones has 1 syllable: bones. In IPA it is /ˈboʊnz/.

What is another word for bones?

Close synonyms include castanets, clappers, finger cymbals. 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 bones a common word?

bones is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 bones?

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