foursome

Other forms of foursome

plural

foursomes·

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 foursome

What does foursome mean?

foursome means "four people considered as a unit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foursome?

foursome has 2 syllables: four-some. The stress falls on "four". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹsəm/.

What is another word for foursome?

Close synonyms include quartet, quartette, four, 4, IV. 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 foursome a common word?

foursome 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.