buttonhole

Other forms of buttonhole

plural

buttonholes·

past tense

buttonholed·

present participle

buttonholing·

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 buttonhole

What does buttonhole mean?

buttonhole means "a hole through which buttons are pushed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buttonhole?

buttonhole has 3 syllables: but-to-nhole. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /ˈbʌtənˌhoʊl/.

What is another word for buttonhole?

Close synonyms include button hole, lobby. 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 buttonhole a common word?

buttonhole is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 buttonhole?

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