avalanche

Other forms of avalanche

plural

avalanches·

past tense

avalanched·

present participle

avalanching·

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 avalanche

What does avalanche mean?

avalanche means "a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in avalanche?

avalanche has 3 syllables: av-a-lanche. The stress falls on "av". In IPA it is /ˈævəˌlæntʃ/.

What is another word for avalanche?

Close synonyms include roll down. 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 avalanche a common word?

avalanche 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.