iceberg

Other forms of iceberg

plural

icebergs·

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 iceberg

What does iceberg mean?

iceberg means "a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in iceberg?

iceberg has 2 syllables: ice-berg. The stress falls on "ice". In IPA it is /ˈaɪsbɚɡ/.

What is another word for iceberg?

Close synonyms include berg, crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce. 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 iceberg a common word?

iceberg 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.