gridiron

Other forms of gridiron

plural

gridirons·

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 gridiron

What does gridiron mean?

gridiron means "a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gridiron?

gridiron has 3 syllables: grid-i-ron. The stress falls on "grid". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹɪˌdaɪɚn/.

What is another word for gridiron?

Close synonyms include grid, football field. 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 gridiron a common word?

gridiron 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 gridiron?

1 word rhymes with gridiron. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.