anvil

Other forms of anvil

plural

anvils·

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 anvil

What does anvil mean?

anvil means "a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anvil?

anvil has 2 syllables: an-vil. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈænvəl/.

What is another word for anvil?

Close synonyms include incus. 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 anvil a common word?

anvil 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.