hydrant

Other forms of hydrant

plural

hydrants·

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 hydrant

What does hydrant mean?

hydrant means "a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hydrant?

hydrant has 2 syllables: hy-drant. The stress falls on "hy". In IPA it is /ˈhaɪdɹənt/.

What is another word for hydrant?

Close synonyms include water faucet, water tap, tap. 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 hydrant a common word?

hydrant 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.