mackintosh

Other forms of mackintosh

plural

mackintoshes·

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 mackintosh

What does mackintosh mean?

mackintosh means "a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mackintosh?

mackintosh has 3 syllables: mac-kin-tosh. The stress falls on "mac". In IPA it is /ˈmækənˌtɑʃ/.

What is another word for mackintosh?

Close synonyms include macintosh, macintosh, mac, mack. 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 mackintosh a common word?

mackintosh 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 mackintosh?

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