touchstone

Other forms of touchstone

plural

touchstones·

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 touchstone

What does touchstone mean?

touchstone means "a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated".

How many syllables are in touchstone?

touchstone has 2 syllables: touch-stone. The stress falls on "touch". In IPA it is /ˈtʌtʃˌstoʊn/.

What is another word for touchstone?

Close synonyms include standard, criterion, measure. 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 touchstone a common word?

touchstone 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 touchstone?

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