chimney

Other forms of chimney

plural

chimneys·

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 chimney

What does chimney mean?

chimney means "a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chimney?

chimney has 2 syllables: chim-ney. The stress falls on "chim". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɪmni/.

What is another word for chimney?

Close synonyms include lamp chimney. 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 chimney a common word?

chimney 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.