kuwait

Other forms of kuwait

plural

kuwaits·

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 kuwait

What does kuwait mean?

kuwait means "a seaport on the Persian Gulf and capital of Kuwait". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kuwait?

kuwait has 2 syllables: ku-wait. The stress falls on "wait". In IPA it is /kuˈweɪt/.

What is another word for kuwait?

Close synonyms include Kuwait City, Koweit, capital of Kuwait, State of Kuwait, Koweit. 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 kuwait a common word?

kuwait 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.

What rhymes with kuwait?

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