borough

Other forms of borough

plural

boroughs·

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 borough

What does borough mean?

borough means "one of the administrative divisions of a large city". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in borough?

borough has 2 syllables: bo-rough. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ˈbɝˌoʊ/.

Is borough a common word?

borough 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 borough?

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