sisterhood

Other forms of sisterhood

plural

sisterhoods·

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 sisterhood

What does sisterhood mean?

sisterhood means "the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sisterhood?

sisterhood has 3 syllables: sis-ter-hood. The stress falls on "sis". In IPA it is /ˈsɪstɚhʊd/.

What is another word for sisterhood?

Close synonyms include sistership, sistership. 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 sisterhood a common word?

sisterhood 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.