falsehood

Other forms of falsehood

plural

falsehoods·

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 falsehood

What does falsehood mean?

falsehood means "a false statement". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in falsehood?

falsehood has 2 syllables: fal-sehood. The stress falls on "fal". In IPA it is /ˈfælsˌhʊd/.

What is another word for falsehood?

Close synonyms include falsity, untruth, falsification. 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.

What is the opposite of falsehood?

The recorded antonyms are truth.

Is falsehood a common word?

falsehood 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 falsehood?

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