hindquarters

Other forms of hindquarters

plural

hindquarterses·

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 hindquarters

What does hindquarters mean?

hindquarters means "the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hindquarters?

hindquarters has 3 syllables: hindq-uar-ters. The stress falls on "hindq". In IPA it is /ˈhaɪndˌkwɔɹtɚz/.

What is another word for hindquarters?

Close synonyms include buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside. 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 hindquarters a common word?

hindquarters 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.

What rhymes with hindquarters?

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