housebreak

Questions about housebreak

What does housebreak mean?

housebreak means "train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house".

How many syllables are in housebreak?

housebreak has 4 syllables: ho-u-se-break. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for housebreak?

Close synonyms include house-train. 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 housebreak a common word?

housebreak 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.