fountainhead

Other forms of fountainhead

plural

fountainheads·

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 fountainhead

What does fountainhead mean?

fountainhead means "an abundant source". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fountainhead?

fountainhead has 4 syllables: fo-un-tain-head. The stress falls on "un".

What is another word for fountainhead?

Close synonyms include well, wellspring, headspring, head. 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 fountainhead a common word?

fountainhead 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.