skinhead

Other forms of skinhead

plural

skinheads·

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 skinhead

What does skinhead mean?

skinhead means "a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in skinhead?

skinhead has 2 syllables: skin-head. The stress falls on "skin". In IPA it is /ˈskɪnˌhɛd/.

What is another word for skinhead?

Close synonyms include skin, baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin. 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 skinhead a common word?

skinhead 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 skinhead?

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