bullhead

Other forms of bullhead

plural

bullheads·

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 bullhead

What does bullhead mean?

bullhead means "freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bullhead?

bullhead has 2 syllables: bull-head. The stress falls on "bull". In IPA it is /ˈbʊlˌhɛd/.

What is another word for bullhead?

Close synonyms include bullhead catfish. 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 bullhead a common word?

bullhead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 bullhead?

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