hookah

Other forms of hookah

plural

hookahs·

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 hookah

What does hookah mean?

hookah means "an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water".

How many syllables are in hookah?

hookah has 2 syllables and divides as hoo-kah under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hookah?

Close synonyms include narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha. 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 hookah a common word?

hookah 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.