badlands

Other forms of badlands

plural

badlandses·

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 badlands

What does badlands mean?

badlands means "deeply eroded barren land". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in badlands?

badlands has 2 syllables: bad-lands. The stress falls on "bad". In IPA it is /ˈbædˌlændz/.

What is another word for badlands?

Close synonyms include Bad Lands. 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 badlands a common word?

badlands 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 badlands?

1 word rhymes with badlands. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.