alder

Other forms of alder

plural

alders·

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 alder

What does alder mean?

alder means "wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alder?

alder has 2 syllables: al-der. The stress falls on "al". In IPA it is /ˈɔldɚ/.

What is another word for alder?

Close synonyms include alder tree. 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 alder a common word?

alder 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.