guillotine

Other forms of guillotine

plural

guillotines·

past tense

guillotined·

present participle

guillotining·

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 guillotine

What does guillotine mean?

guillotine means "closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in guillotine?

guillotine has 3 syllables: guil-lo-tine. The stress falls on "guil". In IPA it is /ˈɡɪləˌtin/.

What is another word for guillotine?

Close synonyms include closure by compartment. 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 guillotine a common word?

guillotine is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 guillotine?

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