hornpipe

Other forms of hornpipe

plural

hornpipes·

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 hornpipe

What does hornpipe mean?

hornpipe means "a British solo dance performed by sailors". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hornpipe?

hornpipe has 2 syllables: horn-pipe. The stress falls on "horn". In IPA it is /ˈhɔɹnpaɪp/.

What is another word for hornpipe?

Close synonyms include pibgorn, stockhorn. 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 hornpipe a common word?

hornpipe 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.