yorktown

Other forms of yorktown

plural

yorktowns·

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 yorktown

What does yorktown mean?

yorktown means "a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yorktown?

yorktown has 2 syllables: york-town. The stress falls on "york". In IPA it is /ˈjɔɹkˌtaʊn/.

What is another word for yorktown?

Close synonyms include siege of Yorktown. 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 yorktown a common word?

yorktown 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 yorktown?

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