handgun

Other forms of handgun

plural

handguns·

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 handgun

What does handgun mean?

handgun means "a firearm that is held and fired with one hand".

How many syllables are in handgun?

handgun has 2 syllables: hand-gun. The stress falls on "hand". In IPA it is /ˈhændˌɡʌn/.

What is another word for handgun?

Close synonyms include pistol, side arm, shooting iron. 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 handgun a common word?

handgun 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 handgun?

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