floodgate

Other forms of floodgate

plural

floodgates·

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 floodgate

What does floodgate mean?

floodgate means "something that restrains a flood or outpouring". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in floodgate?

floodgate has 2 syllables: flood-gate. The stress falls on "flood". In IPA it is /ˈflʌdˌɡeɪt/.

What is another word for floodgate?

Close synonyms include sluicegate, sluice valve, penstock, head gate, water gate. 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 floodgate a common word?

floodgate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 floodgate?

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