ironclad

Other forms of ironclad

plural

ironclads·

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 ironclad

What does ironclad mean?

ironclad means "sheathed in iron plates for protection". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ironclad?

ironclad has 3 syllables: i-ron-clad. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪɚnˌklæd/.

What is another word for ironclad?

Close synonyms include brassbound. 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 ironclad a common word?

ironclad 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.

What rhymes with ironclad?

1 word rhymes with ironclad. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.