self-help

1. 1.

   the act of helping or improving yourself without relying on anyone else

   Broaderaid

Questions about self-help

What does self-help mean?

self-help means "the act of helping or improving yourself without relying on anyone else".

How many syllables are in self-help?

self-help has 2 syllables: self--help. The stress falls on "self-". In IPA it is /ˈsɛlfˈhɛlp/.

Is self-help a common word?

self-help is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 self-help?

1 word rhymes with self-help. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.