headquarters

Other forms of headquarters

plural

headquarters(unchanged)

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 headquarters

What does headquarters mean?

headquarters means "(usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in headquarters?

headquarters has 3 syllables: headq-uar-ters. The stress falls on "headq". In IPA it is /ˈhɛdˌkwɔɹtɚz/.

What is another word for headquarters?

Close synonyms include central office, main office, home office, home base, HQ. 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 headquarters a common word?

headquarters is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 headquarters?

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