fatherhood

Other forms of fatherhood

plural

fatherhoods·

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 fatherhood

What does fatherhood mean?

fatherhood means "the kinship relation between an offspring and the father". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fatherhood?

fatherhood has 3 syllables: fa-ther-hood. The stress falls on "fa". In IPA it is /ˈfɑðɚˌhʊd/.

What is another word for fatherhood?

Close synonyms include paternity, Father, Father-God. 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 fatherhood a common word?

fatherhood 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 fatherhood?

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