hubby

Other forms of hubby

plural

hubbies·

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 hubby

What does hubby mean?

hubby means "a married man; a woman's partner in marriage".

How many syllables are in hubby?

hubby has 2 syllables: hub-by. The stress falls on "hub". In IPA it is /ˈhʌbi/.

What is another word for hubby?

Close synonyms include husband, married man. 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 hubby a common word?

hubby is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.