henroost

1. 1.

   a roost for hens at night

   Broaderroost

Other forms of henroost

plural

henroosts·

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 henroost

What does henroost mean?

henroost means "a roost for hens at night".

How many syllables are in henroost?

henroost has 2 syllables: hen-roost. The stress falls on "hen".

Is henroost a common word?

henroost is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.