balusters

Other forms of balusters

plural

balusterses·

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 balusters

What does balusters mean?

balusters means "a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling".

How many syllables are in balusters?

balusters has 3 syllables: ba-lu-sters. The stress falls on "ba".

What is another word for balusters?

Close synonyms include bannister, banister, balustrade, handrail. 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 balusters a common word?

balusters is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.