aster

Other forms of aster

plural

asters·

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 aster

What does aster mean?

aster means "any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aster?

aster has 2 syllables: as-ter. The stress falls on "as". In IPA it is /ˈæstɚ/.

Is aster a common word?

aster 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 aster?

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