thumbtack

Other forms of thumbtack

plural

thumbtacks·

past tense

thumbtacked·

present participle

thumbtacking·

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 thumbtack

What does thumbtack mean?

thumbtack means "a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thumbtack?

thumbtack has 2 syllables: thumb-tack. The stress falls on "thumb".

What is another word for thumbtack?

Close synonyms include drawing pin, pushpin. 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 thumbtack a common word?

thumbtack 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.