hands

Other forms of hands

plural

handses·

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 hands

What does hands mean?

hands means "(with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hands?

hands has 1 syllable: hands. In IPA it is /ˈhændz/.

What is another word for hands?

Close synonyms include custody, work force, workforce, manpower, men. 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 hands a common word?

hands is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.