alar

Other forms of alar

plural

alars·

comparative

alarrer·

superlative

alarrest·

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 alar

What does alar mean?

alar means "of or relating to the axil". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alar?

alar has 2 syllables: a-lar. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˈeɪˌlɑɹ/.

What is another word for alar?

Close synonyms include axillary, alary, aliform, wing-shaped, daminozide. 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 alar a common word?

alar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 alar?

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