pompon

Other forms of pompon

plural

pompons·

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 pompon

What does pompon mean?

pompon means "decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pompon?

pompon has 2 syllables: pom-pon. The stress falls on "pom". In IPA it is /ˈpɑmˌpɑn/.

What is another word for pompon?

Close synonyms include pom-pom, black margate, Anisotremus surinamensis. 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 pompon a common word?

pompon 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.

What rhymes with pompon?

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