afford

Other forms of afford

past tense

afforded·

present participle

affording·

third person

affords·

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 afford

What does afford mean?

afford means "be able to spare or give up". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in afford?

afford has 2 syllables: af-ford. The stress falls on "ford". In IPA it is /əˈfɔɹd/.

What is another word for afford?

Close synonyms include yield, give, open, give. 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 afford a common word?

afford 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 afford?

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