heavyweight

Other forms of heavyweight

plural

heavyweights·

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 heavyweight

What does heavyweight mean?

heavyweight means "an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heavyweight?

heavyweight has 3 syllables: heav-y-weight. The stress falls on "heav". In IPA it is /ˈhɛviˌweɪt/.

What is another word for heavyweight?

Close synonyms include giant, hulk, whale, colossus, behemoth. 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 heavyweight a common word?

heavyweight is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 heavyweight?

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