hebrides

Other forms of hebrides

plural

hebrideses·

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 hebrides

What does hebrides mean?

hebrides means "a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland".

How many syllables are in hebrides?

hebrides has 3 syllables: heb-ri-des. The stress falls on "heb". In IPA it is /ˈhɛbɹɪdiz/.

What is another word for hebrides?

Close synonyms include Hebridean Islands, Hebridean Isles, Western Islands, Western Isles. 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 hebrides a common word?

hebrides 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.