watchword

Other forms of watchword

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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 watchword

What does watchword mean?

watchword means "a slogan used to rally support for a cause". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watchword?

watchword has 2 syllables: watch-word. The stress falls on "watch". In IPA it is /ˈwɑtʃˌwɝd/.

What is another word for watchword?

Close synonyms include war cry, rallying cry, battle cry, cry, password. 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 watchword a common word?

watchword 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 watchword?

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