hieroglyph

Other forms of hieroglyph

plural

hieroglyphs·

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 hieroglyph

What does hieroglyph mean?

hieroglyph means "writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hieroglyph?

hieroglyph has 3 syllables: hie-ro-glyph. The stress falls on "glyph". In IPA it is /ˌhaɪɹoʊˈɡlɪf/.

What is another word for hieroglyph?

Close synonyms include hieroglyphic, hieroglyphic. 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 hieroglyph a common word?

hieroglyph 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.

What rhymes with hieroglyph?

1 word rhymes with hieroglyph. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.