eyeglasses

Other forms of eyeglasses

plural

eyeglasseses·

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 eyeglasses

What does eyeglasses mean?

eyeglasses means "(plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision".

How many syllables are in eyeglasses?

eyeglasses has 3 syllables: eye-glas-ses. The stress falls on "eye". In IPA it is /ˈaɪˌɡlæsəz/.

What is another word for eyeglasses?

Close synonyms include spectacles, specs, glasses. 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 eyeglasses a common word?

eyeglasses 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 eyeglasses?

1 word rhymes with eyeglasses. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.