woodwind

Other forms of woodwind

plural

woodwinds·

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 woodwind

What does woodwind mean?

woodwind means "any wind instrument other than the brass instruments".

How many syllables are in woodwind?

woodwind has 2 syllables: wood-wind. The stress falls on "wood". In IPA it is /ˈwʊˌdwɪnd/.

What is another word for woodwind?

Close synonyms include woodwind instrument, wood. 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 woodwind a common word?

woodwind 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 woodwind?

1 word rhymes with woodwind. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.