headgear

Other forms of headgear

plural

headgears·

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 headgear

What does headgear mean?

headgear means "clothing for the head". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in headgear?

headgear has 2 syllables: head-gear. The stress falls on "head". In IPA it is /ˈhɛdˌɡɪɹ/.

What is another word for headgear?

Close synonyms include headdress. 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 headgear a common word?

headgear 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 headgear?

1 word rhymes with headgear. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.