john

Other forms of john

plural

johns·

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 john

What does john mean?

john means "a room or building equipped with one or more toilets". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in john?

john has 1 syllable: john. In IPA it is /ˈdʒɑn/.

What is another word for john?

Close synonyms include toilet, lavatory, lav, can, privy. 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 john a common word?

john is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 john?

3 words rhyme with john. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.