pentagon

Questions about pentagon

What does pentagon mean?

pentagon means "a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pentagon?

pentagon has 3 syllables: pen-ta-gon. The stress falls on "pen". In IPA it is /ˈpɛntɪˌɡɑn/.

Is pentagon a common word?

pentagon 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 pentagon?

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