drumhead

Other forms of drumhead

plural

drumheads·

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 drumhead

What does drumhead mean?

drumhead means "a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drumhead?

drumhead has 2 syllables: drum-head. The stress falls on "drum". In IPA it is /ˈdɹʌmˌhɛd/.

What is another word for drumhead?

Close synonyms include head, summary. 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 drumhead a common word?

drumhead 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 drumhead?

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