hodgepodge

Other forms of hodgepodge

plural

hodgepodges·

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 hodgepodge

What does hodgepodge mean?

hodgepodge means "a motley assortment of things". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hodgepodge?

hodgepodge has 2 syllables: hod-gepodge. The stress falls on "hod". In IPA it is /ˈhɑdʒˌpɑdʒ/.

What is another word for hodgepodge?

Close synonyms include odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag. 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 hodgepodge a common word?

hodgepodge 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.