Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

headcount

/ˈhɛdˌkaʊnt/ noun

Forms headcounts head count

noun The act of counting how many people are present in a group. “Let's take a quick headcount, to make sure we're all here.”
noun The number of people present in a group or employed by a company. “The company's headcount on January 1 was 15,203.”
noun (chiefly attributive) More generally, a consideration of a company's appropriate staffing level based on some larger context. “Due to economic difficulties, the company will be making headcount adjustments.”
noun (by extension) One slot in a workgroup, filled or to be filled by one person. “I've convinced management to give us one more headcount, to take some work off the rest of us.”

Synonyms

From head + count.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “headcount”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details