downhill

Other forms of downhill

plural

downhills·

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 downhill

What does downhill mean?

downhill means "the downward slope of a hill". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in downhill?

downhill has 2 syllables: down-hill. The stress falls on "down". In IPA it is /ˈdaʊnˈhɪl/.

What is another word for downhill?

Close synonyms include declivitous, downward-sloping. 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 downhill a common word?

downhill 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 downhill?

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