horseback

Other forms of horseback

plural

horsebacks·

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 horseback

What does horseback mean?

horseback means "the back of a horse". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in horseback?

horseback has 2 syllables: hor-seback. The stress falls on "hor". In IPA it is /ˈhɔɹsˌbæk/.

What is another word for horseback?

Close synonyms include hogback, ahorse, ahorseback. 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 horseback a common word?

horseback is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 horseback?

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