guest

Other forms of guest

plural

guests·

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 guest

What does guest mean?

guest means "a visitor to whom hospitality is extended". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in guest?

guest has 1 syllable: guest. In IPA it is /ˈɡɛst/.

What is another word for guest?

Close synonyms include invitee, Edgar Guest, Edgar Albert Guest, node, client. 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 guest a common word?

guest 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.