smokescreen

Other forms of smokescreen

plural

smokescreens·

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 smokescreen

What does smokescreen mean?

smokescreen means "(military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in smokescreen?

smokescreen has 2 syllables: smoke-screen. The stress falls on "smoke". In IPA it is /ˈsmoʊkˌskɹin/.

What is another word for smokescreen?

Close synonyms include smoke screen, smoke screen. 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 smokescreen a common word?

smokescreen 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 smokescreen?

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