mackinaw

Other forms of mackinaw

plural

mackinaws·

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 mackinaw

What does mackinaw mean?

mackinaw means "a short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mackinaw?

mackinaw has 3 syllables: mac-ki-naw. The stress falls on "mac". In IPA it is /ˈmækəˌnɔ/.

What is another word for mackinaw?

Close synonyms include Mackinaw coat, Mackinaw blanket, Mackinaw boat. 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 mackinaw a common word?

mackinaw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 mackinaw?

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