honeycomb

Other forms of honeycomb

plural

honeycombs·

past tense

honeycombed·

present participle

honeycombing·

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 honeycomb

What does honeycomb mean?

honeycomb means "carve a honeycomb pattern into". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in honeycomb?

honeycomb has 3 syllables: hon-ey-comb. The stress falls on "hon". In IPA it is /ˈhʌniˌkoʊm/.

Is honeycomb a common word?

honeycomb 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 honeycomb?

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