whitehead

Other forms of whitehead

plural

whiteheads·

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 whitehead

What does whitehead mean?

whitehead means "English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whitehead?

whitehead has 2 syllables: white-head. The stress falls on "white". In IPA it is /ˈwaɪtˌhɛd/.

What is another word for whitehead?

Close synonyms include Alfred North Whitehead, milium. 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 whitehead a common word?

whitehead 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 whitehead?

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