ballad

Other forms of ballad

plural

ballads·

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 ballad

What does ballad mean?

ballad means "a narrative song with a recurrent refrain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ballad?

ballad has 2 syllables: bal-lad. The stress falls on "bal". In IPA it is /ˈbæləd/.

What is another word for ballad?

Close synonyms include lay, lay. 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 ballad a common word?

ballad 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.