whitney

Other forms of whitney

plural

whitneys·

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 whitney

What does whitney mean?

whitney means "United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whitney?

whitney has 2 syllables: whit-ney. The stress falls on "whit". In IPA it is /ˈwɪtni/.

What is another word for whitney?

Close synonyms include Eli Whitney, Mount Whitney. 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 whitney a common word?

whitney is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.