cowhand

Other forms of cowhand

plural

cowhands·

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 cowhand

What does cowhand mean?

cowhand means "a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback".

How many syllables are in cowhand?

cowhand has 2 syllables and divides as co-whand under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cowhand?

Close synonyms include cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman. 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 cowhand a common word?

cowhand 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.