watchdog

Other forms of watchdog

plural

watchdogs·

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 watchdog

What does watchdog mean?

watchdog means "a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watchdog?

watchdog has 2 syllables: watch-dog. The stress falls on "watch". In IPA it is /ˈwɑtʃˌdɔɡ/.

What is another word for watchdog?

Close synonyms include guard dog. 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 watchdog a common word?

watchdog is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 watchdog?

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