swellhead

Other forms of swellhead

plural

swellheads·

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 swellhead

What does swellhead mean?

swellhead means "a conceited and self-centered person".

How many syllables are in swellhead?

swellhead has 3 syllables: swell-he-ad. The stress falls on "swell".

What is another word for swellhead?

Close synonyms include egotist, egoist. 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 swellhead a common word?

swellhead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.