mailbox

Other forms of mailbox

plural

mailboxes·

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 mailbox

What does mailbox mean?

mailbox means "a private box for delivery of mail". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mailbox?

mailbox has 2 syllables: mail-box. The stress falls on "mail". In IPA it is /ˈmeɪlˌbɑks/.

What is another word for mailbox?

Close synonyms include letter box, postbox, letter box. 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 mailbox a common word?

mailbox 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 mailbox?

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