figurehead

Other forms of figurehead

plural

figureheads·

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 figurehead

What does figurehead mean?

figurehead means "a person used as a cover for some questionable activity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in figurehead?

figurehead has 3 syllables: figur-e-head. The stress falls on "figur". In IPA it is /ˈfɪɡjɚˌhɛd/.

What is another word for figurehead?

Close synonyms include front man, front, nominal head, straw man, strawman. 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 figurehead a common word?

figurehead 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 figurehead?

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