ail

Other forms of ail

plural

ails·

past tense

ailed·

present participle

ailing·

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 ail

What does ail mean?

ail means "be ill or unwell". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ail?

ail has 1 syllable: ail. In IPA it is /ˈeɪl/.

What is another word for ail?

Close synonyms include trouble, pain, garlic. 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 ail a common word?

ail 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 ail?

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