portmanteau

Other forms of portmanteau

plural

portmanteaux

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 portmanteau

What does portmanteau mean?

portmanteau means "a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in portmanteau?

portmanteau has 3 syllables: port-man-teau. The stress falls on "port". In IPA it is /ˈpɔɹtmɑnˌtoʊ/.

What is another word for portmanteau?

Close synonyms include blend, portmanteau word, Gladstone, Gladstone bag. 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 portmanteau a common word?

portmanteau 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 portmanteau?

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