brooch

Other forms of brooch

plural

brooches·

past tense

brooched·

present participle

brooching·

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 brooch

What does brooch mean?

brooch means "a decorative pin worn by women". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brooch?

brooch has 1 syllable: brooch. In IPA it is /ˈbɹutʃ/.

What is another word for brooch?

Close synonyms include broach, breastpin, clasp. 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 brooch a common word?

brooch 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.