pothouse

Other forms of pothouse

plural

pothouses·

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 pothouse

What does pothouse mean?

pothouse means "tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals".

How many syllables are in pothouse?

pothouse has 2 syllables and divides as po-thouse under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pothouse?

Close synonyms include public house, pub, saloon, gin mill, taphouse. 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 pothouse a common word?

pothouse 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.