chokehold

Other forms of chokehold

plural

chokeholds·

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 chokehold

What does chokehold mean?

chokehold means "complete power over a person or situation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chokehold?

chokehold has 2 syllables: choke-hold. The stress falls on "choke". In IPA it is /ˈtʃoʊkˌhoʊld/.

What is another word for chokehold?

Close synonyms include stranglehold, throttlehold, choke hold. 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 chokehold a common word?

chokehold 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 chokehold?

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