girlfriend

Other forms of girlfriend

plural

girlfriends·

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 girlfriend

What does girlfriend mean?

girlfriend means "any female friend". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in girlfriend?

girlfriend has 2 syllables: girl-friend. The stress falls on "girl". In IPA it is /ˈɡɝlˌfɹɛnd/.

What is another word for girlfriend?

Close synonyms include girl, lady friend. 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 girlfriend a common word?

girlfriend is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 girlfriend?

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