massachusetts

Other forms of massachusetts

plural

massachusettses·

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 massachusetts

What does massachusetts mean?

massachusetts means "a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in massachusetts?

massachusetts has 4 syllables: mas-sa-chu-setts. The stress falls on "chu". In IPA it is /ˌmæsəˈtʃusəts/.

What is another word for massachusetts?

Close synonyms include Bay State, Old Colony, MA, Mass., Massachuset. 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 massachusetts a common word?

massachusetts 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.