hautboy

Other forms of hautboy

plural

hautboys·

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 hautboy

What does hautboy mean?

hautboy means "a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece".

How many syllables are in hautboy?

hautboy has 2 syllables: haut-boy. The stress falls on "haut".

What is another word for hautboy?

Close synonyms include oboe, hautbois. 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 hautboy a common word?

hautboy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.