haversack

Questions about haversack

What does haversack mean?

haversack means "a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder".

How many syllables are in haversack?

haversack has 3 syllables and divides as ha-ver-sack under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for haversack?

Close synonyms include backpack, back pack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack. 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 haversack a common word?

haversack 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.