pillow

Other forms of pillow

plural

pillows·

past tense

pillowed·

present participle

pillowing·

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 pillow

What does pillow mean?

pillow means "a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pillow?

pillow has 2 syllables: pil-low. The stress falls on "pil". In IPA it is /ˈpɪloʊ/.

What is another word for pillow?

Close synonyms include rest. 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 pillow a common word?

pillow is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.