shutdown

Other forms of shutdown

plural

shutdowns·

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 shutdown

What does shutdown mean?

shutdown means "termination of operations".

How many syllables are in shutdown?

shutdown has 2 syllables: shut-down. The stress falls on "shut". In IPA it is /ˈʃʌtˌdaʊn/.

What is another word for shutdown?

Close synonyms include closure, closedown, closing. 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 shutdown a common word?

shutdown is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 shutdown?

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