altitude

Other forms of altitude

plural

altitudes·

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 altitude

What does altitude mean?

altitude means "elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in altitude?

altitude has 3 syllables: al-ti-tude. The stress falls on "al". In IPA it is /ˈæltəˌtud/.

What is another word for altitude?

Close synonyms include height, elevation, EL, ALT. 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 altitude a common word?

altitude is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 altitude?

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