nuthouse

Other forms of nuthouse

plural

nuthouses·

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 nuthouse

What does nuthouse mean?

nuthouse means "pejorative terms for an insane asylum".

How many syllables are in nuthouse?

nuthouse has 2 syllables: nu-thouse. The stress falls on "nu".

What is another word for nuthouse?

Close synonyms include Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm. 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 nuthouse a common word?

nuthouse 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.