hotbed

What does hotbed mean?

hotbed means "a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hotbed?

hotbed has 2 syllables: hot-bed. The stress falls on "hot". In IPA it is /ˈhɑtˌbɛd/.

Is hotbed a common word?

hotbed 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.

What rhymes with hotbed?

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

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hotbed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.