watershed

Other forms of watershed

plural

watersheds·

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 watershed

What does watershed mean?

watershed means "a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watershed?

watershed has 3 syllables: wa-ter-shed. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈwɔtɚˌʃɛd/.

What is another word for watershed?

Close synonyms include water parting, divide, river basin, basin, drainage basin. 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 watershed a common word?

watershed 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 watershed?

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