honshu

Other forms of honshu

plural

honshus·

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 honshu

What does honshu mean?

honshu means "the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland".

How many syllables are in honshu?

honshu has 2 syllables: hon-shu. The stress falls on "hon". In IPA it is /ˈhɑnʃu/.

What is another word for honshu?

Close synonyms include Hondo. 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 honshu a common word?

honshu 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.