groundwork

Other forms of groundwork

plural

groundworks·

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 groundwork

What does groundwork mean?

groundwork means "the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in groundwork?

groundwork has 2 syllables: groun-dwork. The stress falls on "groun". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹaʊnˌdwɝk/.

What is another word for groundwork?

Close synonyms include basis, base, foundation, fundament, cornerstone. 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 groundwork a common word?

groundwork 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 groundwork?

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