horsehead

Other forms of horsehead

plural

horseheads·

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 horsehead

What does horsehead mean?

horsehead means "any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies".

How many syllables are in horsehead?

horsehead has 2 syllables: hor-sehead. The stress falls on "hor". In IPA it is /ˈhɔɹsˌhɛd/.

What is another word for horsehead?

Close synonyms include moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horse-head, dollarfish. 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 horsehead a common word?

horsehead 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.

What rhymes with horsehead?

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