hillock

Other forms of hillock

plural

hillocks·

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 hillock

What does hillock mean?

hillock means "a small natural hill".

How many syllables are in hillock?

hillock has 2 syllables: hil-lock. The stress falls on "hil". In IPA it is /ˈhɪlək/.

What is another word for hillock?

Close synonyms include knoll, mound, hummock, hammock. 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 hillock a common word?

hillock 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.