newport

Other forms of newport

plural

newports·

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 newport

What does newport mean?

newport means "a port city in southeastern Wales". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in newport?

newport has 2 syllables: new-port. The stress falls on "new". In IPA it is /ˈnupɔɹt/.

Is newport a common word?

newport 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.