pigeonhole

Other forms of pigeonhole

plural

pigeonholes·

past tense

pigeonholed·

present participle

pigeonholing·

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 pigeonhole

What does pigeonhole mean?

pigeonhole means "a specific (often simplistic) category". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pigeonhole?

pigeonhole has 3 syllables: pigeon-ho-le. The stress falls on "pigeon". In IPA it is /ˈpɪdʒənˌhoʊl/.

What is another word for pigeonhole?

Close synonyms include cubbyhole, stereotype, stamp. 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 pigeonhole a common word?

pigeonhole 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.

What rhymes with pigeonhole?

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