stopover

Other forms of stopover

plural

stopovers·

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 stopover

What does stopover mean?

stopover means "a stopping place on a journey". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stopover?

stopover has 3 syllables: sto-po-ver. The stress falls on "sto". In IPA it is /ˈstɑˌpoʊvɚ/.

What is another word for stopover?

Close synonyms include way station, stop, layover. 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 stopover a common word?

stopover 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 stopover?

1 word rhymes with stopover. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.