matterhorn

1. 1.

   a mountain in the Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy (14,780 feet high); noted for its distinctive shape

   Broadermountain peak

   Part ofAlpsSwitzerlandItaly

Other forms of matterhorn

plural

matterhorns·

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 matterhorn

What does matterhorn mean?

matterhorn means "a mountain in the Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy (14,780 feet high); noted for its distinctive shape".

How many syllables are in matterhorn?

matterhorn has 3 syllables: mat-ter-horn. The stress falls on "mat".

Is matterhorn a common word?

matterhorn 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.