headstone

Other forms of headstone

plural

headstones·

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 headstone

What does headstone mean?

headstone means "the central building block at the top of an arch or vault". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in headstone?

headstone has 2 syllables: head-stone. The stress falls on "head". In IPA it is /ˈhɛdˌstoʊn/.

What is another word for headstone?

Close synonyms include keystone, key, gravestone, tombstone. 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 headstone a common word?

headstone 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 headstone?

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