gustavus

Other forms of gustavus

plural

gustavuses·

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 gustavus

What does gustavus mean?

gustavus means "the last king of Sweden to have any real political power (1882-1973)". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gustavus?

gustavus has 3 syllables: gus-ta-vus. The stress falls on "gus". In IPA it is /ˈɡʌstəvəs/.

What is another word for gustavus?

Close synonyms include Gustavus VI, Gustavus V, Gustavus IV, Gustavus III, Gustavus II. 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 gustavus a common word?

gustavus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.