laundry

Other forms of laundry

plural

laundries·

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 laundry

What does laundry mean?

laundry means "garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laundry?

laundry has 2 syllables: laun-dry. The stress falls on "laun". In IPA it is /ˈlɔndɹi/.

What is another word for laundry?

Close synonyms include wash, washing, washables. 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 laundry a common word?

laundry is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.