staircase

Other forms of staircase

plural

staircases·

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 staircase

What does staircase mean?

staircase means "a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps".

How many syllables are in staircase?

staircase has 2 syllables: stair-case. The stress falls on "stair". In IPA it is /ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/.

What is another word for staircase?

Close synonyms include stairway. 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 staircase a common word?

staircase is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 staircase?

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