woman

Other forms of woman

plural

womans·

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 woman

What does woman mean?

woman means "an adult female person (as opposed to a man)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in woman?

woman has 2 syllables: wom-an. The stress falls on "wom". In IPA it is /ˈwʊmən/.

What is another word for woman?

Close synonyms include adult female, charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady. 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.

What is the opposite of woman?

The recorded antonyms are man, man.

Is woman a common word?

woman is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 woman?

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