courtyard

Other forms of courtyard

plural

courtyards·

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 courtyard

What does courtyard mean?

courtyard means "an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings".

How many syllables are in courtyard?

courtyard has 2 syllables: cour-tyard. The stress falls on "cour". In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹˌtjɑɹd/.

What is another word for courtyard?

Close synonyms include court. 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 courtyard a common word?

courtyard 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.

What rhymes with courtyard?

1 word rhymes with courtyard. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.