schoolchild

Other forms of schoolchild

plural

schoolchilds·

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 schoolchild

What does schoolchild mean?

schoolchild means "a young person attending school (up through senior high school)".

How many syllables are in schoolchild?

schoolchild has 2 syllables: school-child. The stress falls on "school". In IPA it is /ˈskulˌtʃaɪld/.

What is another word for schoolchild?

Close synonyms include school-age child, pupil. 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 schoolchild a common word?

schoolchild 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 schoolchild?

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