auburn

1. 1.

   (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown

   “auburn hair”

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of auburn

comparative

auburner·

superlative

auburnest·

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 auburn

What does auburn mean?

auburn means "(of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown".

How many syllables are in auburn?

auburn has 2 syllables: au-burn. The stress falls on "au". In IPA it is /ˈɑbɚn/.

Is auburn a common word?

auburn 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.