housecoat

Questions about housecoat

What does housecoat mean?

housecoat means "a loose dressing gown for women".

How many syllables are in housecoat?

housecoat has 4 syllables: ho-u-se-coat. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for housecoat?

Close synonyms include negligee, neglige, peignoir, wrapper. 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 housecoat a common word?

housecoat 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.