crossroad

Other forms of crossroad

plural

crossroads·

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 crossroad

What does crossroad mean?

crossroad means "a junction where one street or road crosses another".

How many syllables are in crossroad?

crossroad has 2 syllables: cross-road. The stress falls on "cross". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɔsˌɹoʊd/.

What is another word for crossroad?

Close synonyms include intersection, crossway, crossing, carrefour. 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 crossroad a common word?

crossroad 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.

What rhymes with crossroad?

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