pithead

1. 1.

   the entrance to a coal mine

   Broaderentrance

Other forms of pithead

plural

pitheads·

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 pithead

What does pithead mean?

pithead means "the entrance to a coal mine".

How many syllables are in pithead?

pithead has 3 syllables: pi-the-ad. The stress falls on "pi".

Is pithead a common word?

pithead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.