wishbone

Questions about wishbone

What does wishbone mean?

wishbone means "the furcula of a domestic fowl".

How many syllables are in wishbone?

wishbone has 2 syllables: wish-bone. The stress falls on "wish". In IPA it is /ˈwɪʃˌboʊn/.

What is another word for wishbone?

Close synonyms include wishing bone. 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 wishbone a common word?

wishbone 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 wishbone?

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