handbag

Other forms of handbag

plural

handbags·

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 handbag

What does handbag mean?

handbag means "a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)".

How many syllables are in handbag?

handbag has 2 syllables: hand-bag. The stress falls on "hand". In IPA it is /ˈhændˌbæɡ/.

What is another word for handbag?

Close synonyms include bag, pocketbook, purse. 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 handbag a common word?

handbag 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 handbag?

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