breath

Other forms of breath

plural

breaths·

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 breath

What does breath mean?

breath means "the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breath?

breath has 1 syllable: breath. In IPA it is /ˈbɹɛθ/.

What is another word for breath?

Close synonyms include breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time. 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 breath a common word?

breath 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.