doodad

Other forms of doodad

plural

doodads·

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 doodad

What does doodad mean?

doodad means "something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known".

How many syllables are in doodad?

doodad has 2 syllables: doo-dad. The stress falls on "doo". In IPA it is /ˈduˌdæd/.

What is another word for doodad?

Close synonyms include doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo, gismo. 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 doodad a common word?

doodad 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 doodad?

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