wellspring

Other forms of wellspring

plural

wellsprings·

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 wellspring

What does wellspring mean?

wellspring means "the source of water for a well". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wellspring?

wellspring has 2 syllables: well-spring. The stress falls on "well". In IPA it is /ˈwɛlˌspɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for wellspring?

Close synonyms include wellhead, well, fountainhead. 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 wellspring a common word?

wellspring 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 wellspring?

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