smith

Other forms of smith

plural

smiths·

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 smith

What does smith mean?

smith means "Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919)". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in smith?

smith has 1 syllable: smith. In IPA it is /ˈsmɪθ/.

What is another word for smith?

Close synonyms include Ian Smith, Ian Douglas Smith, David Smith, David Roland Smith, Kate Smith. 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 smith a common word?

smith is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 smith?

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