muttonhead

Other forms of muttonhead

plural

muttonheads·

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 muttonhead

What does muttonhead mean?

muttonhead means "a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence".

How many syllables are in muttonhead?

muttonhead has 4 syllables: mut-ton-he-ad. The stress falls on "ton".

What is another word for muttonhead?

Close synonyms include dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead. 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 muttonhead a common word?

muttonhead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.