hammerhead

Other forms of hammerhead

plural

hammerheads·

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 hammerhead

What does hammerhead mean?

hammerhead means "a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hammerhead?

hammerhead has 4 syllables: ham-mer-he-ad. The stress falls on "mer".

What is another word for hammerhead?

Close synonyms include dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead. 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 hammerhead a common word?

hammerhead 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.