household

Other forms of household

plural

households·

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 household

What does household mean?

household means "a social unit living together".

How many syllables are in household?

household has 2 syllables: house-hold. The stress falls on "house". In IPA it is /ˈhaʊsˌhoʊld/.

What is another word for household?

Close synonyms include family, house, home, menage. 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 household a common word?

household is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 household?

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