mouthful

Other forms of mouthful

plural

mouthfuls·

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 mouthful

What does mouthful mean?

mouthful means "the quantity that can be held in the mouth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mouthful?

mouthful has 2 syllables: mouth-ful. The stress falls on "mouth". In IPA it is /ˈmaʊθˌfʊl/.

What is another word for mouthful?

Close synonyms include taste. 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 mouthful a common word?

mouthful 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 mouthful?

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