headphone

Other forms of headphone

plural

headphones·

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 headphone

What does headphone mean?

headphone means "electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear".

How many syllables are in headphone?

headphone has 2 syllables: head-phone. The stress falls on "head". In IPA it is /ˈhɛdˌfoʊn/.

What is another word for headphone?

Close synonyms include earphone, earpiece, phone. 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 headphone a common word?

headphone 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 headphone?

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