offspring

Other forms of offspring

plural

offspring(unchanged)

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 offspring

What does offspring mean?

offspring means "the immediate descendants of a person". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in offspring?

offspring has 2 syllables: off-spring. The stress falls on "off". In IPA it is /ˈɔfˌspɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for offspring?

Close synonyms include progeny, issue, materialization, materialisation, young. 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 offspring a common word?

offspring 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 offspring?

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