taphouse

Other forms of taphouse

plural

taphouses·

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 taphouse

What does taphouse mean?

taphouse means "tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals".

How many syllables are in taphouse?

taphouse has 2 syllables and divides as ta-phouse under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for taphouse?

Close synonyms include public house, pub, saloon, pothouse, gin mill. 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 taphouse a common word?

taphouse 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.