doormat

Other forms of doormat

plural

doormats·

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 doormat

What does doormat mean?

doormat means "a person who is physically weak and ineffectual". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in doormat?

doormat has 2 syllables: door-mat. The stress falls on "door". In IPA it is /ˈdɔɹˌmæt/.

What is another word for doormat?

Close synonyms include weakling, wuss, welcome mat. 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 doormat a common word?

doormat 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 doormat?

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