headdress

Other forms of headdress

plural

headdresses·

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 headdress

What does headdress mean?

headdress means "clothing for the head".

How many syllables are in headdress?

headdress has 2 syllables: head-dress. The stress falls on "head". In IPA it is /ˈhɛˌdɹɛs/.

What is another word for headdress?

Close synonyms include headgear. 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 headdress a common word?

headdress is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 headdress?

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