coffin

Other forms of coffin

plural

coffins·

past tense

coffinned·

present participle

coffinning·

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 coffin

What does coffin mean?

coffin means "box in which a corpse is buried or cremated". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coffin?

coffin has 2 syllables: cof-fin. The stress falls on "cof". In IPA it is /ˈkɔfɪn/.

What is another word for coffin?

Close synonyms include casket. 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 coffin a common word?

coffin is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.