signpost

Other forms of signpost

plural

signposts·

past tense

signposted·

present participle

signposting·

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 signpost

What does signpost mean?

signpost means "a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in signpost?

signpost has 2 syllables: sign-post. The stress falls on "sign". In IPA it is /ˈsaɪnˌpoʊst/.

What is another word for signpost?

Close synonyms include guidepost. 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 signpost a common word?

signpost 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 signpost?

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