sleepyhead

1. 1.

   a sleepy person

   Broaderperson

Other forms of sleepyhead

plural

sleepyheads·

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 sleepyhead

What does sleepyhead mean?

sleepyhead means "a sleepy person".

How many syllables are in sleepyhead?

sleepyhead has 4 syllables and divides as sle-e-py-head under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.