madhouse

Other forms of madhouse

plural

madhouses·

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 madhouse

What does madhouse mean?

madhouse means "pejorative terms for an insane asylum".

How many syllables are in madhouse?

madhouse has 2 syllables: mad-house. The stress falls on "mad". In IPA it is /ˈmædˌhaʊs/.

What is another word for madhouse?

Close synonyms include Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm. 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 madhouse a common word?

madhouse 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 madhouse?

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