sledgehammer

1. 1.

   a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

   Synonymsmaulsledge

   Broaderhammer

1. 1.

   beat with a sledgehammer

   Synonymssledge

   Broaderhammer

Other forms of sledgehammer

plural

sledgehammers·

past tense

sledgehammerred·

present participle

sledgehammerring·

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 sledgehammer

What does sledgehammer mean?

sledgehammer means "a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sledgehammer?

sledgehammer has 3 syllables: sled-geham-mer. The stress falls on "sled". In IPA it is /ˈslɛdʒˌhæmɚ/.

What is another word for sledgehammer?

Close synonyms include maul, sledge, sledge. 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 sledgehammer a common word?

sledgehammer 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 sledgehammer?

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