millstone

Other forms of millstone

plural

millstones·

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 millstone

What does millstone mean?

millstone means "(figurative) something that hinders or handicaps". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in millstone?

millstone has 2 syllables: mill-stone. The stress falls on "mill". In IPA it is /ˈmɪlˌstoʊn/.

What is another word for millstone?

Close synonyms include albatross. 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 millstone a common word?

millstone 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.

What rhymes with millstone?

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