flashpoint

Other forms of flashpoint

plural

flashpoints·

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 flashpoint

What does flashpoint mean?

flashpoint means "point at which something is ready to blow up". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flashpoint?

flashpoint has 2 syllables: flash-point. The stress falls on "flash". In IPA it is /ˈflæʃˌpɔɪnt/.

What is another word for flashpoint?

Close synonyms include flash point, hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot, flash point. 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 flashpoint a common word?

flashpoint 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 flashpoint?

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