guideline

Other forms of guideline

plural

guidelines·

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 guideline

What does guideline mean?

guideline means "a light line that is used in lettering to help align the letters". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in guideline?

guideline has 2 syllables: guide-line. The stress falls on "guide". In IPA it is /ˈɡaɪdˌlaɪn/.

What is another word for guideline?

Close synonyms include road map, guidepost, rule of thumb. 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 guideline a common word?

guideline 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 guideline?

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