mailbag

Other forms of mailbag

plural

mailbags·

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 mailbag

What does mailbag mean?

mailbag means "pouch used in the shipment of mail". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mailbag?

mailbag has 2 syllables: mail-bag. The stress falls on "mail". In IPA it is /ˈmeɪlˌbæɡ/.

What is another word for mailbag?

Close synonyms include mail pouch, postbag. 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 mailbag a common word?

mailbag 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 mailbag?

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