hammock

Other forms of hammock

plural

hammocks·

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 hammock

What does hammock mean?

hammock means "a small natural hill". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hammock?

hammock has 2 syllables: ham-mock. The stress falls on "ham". In IPA it is /ˈhæmək/.

What is another word for hammock?

Close synonyms include knoll, mound, hillock, hummock, sack. 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 hammock a common word?

hammock 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.