breakup

Other forms of breakup

plural

breakups·

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 breakup

What does breakup mean?

breakup means "the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breakup?

breakup has 2 syllables: brea-kup. The stress falls on "brea". In IPA it is /ˈbɹeɪˌkʌp/.

What is another word for breakup?

Close synonyms include dissolution, separation, detachment. 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 breakup a common word?

breakup 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 breakup?

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