houston

Other forms of houston

plural

houstons·

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 houston

What does houston mean?

houston means "the largest city in Texas; located in southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico; site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in houston?

houston has 2 syllables: hou-ston. The stress falls on "hou". In IPA it is /ˈhjustən/.

What is another word for houston?

Close synonyms include Sam Houston, Samuel Houston. 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 houston a common word?

houston 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.