bladder

Other forms of bladder

plural

bladders·

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 bladder

What does bladder mean?

bladder means "a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bladder?

bladder has 2 syllables: blad-der. The stress falls on "blad". In IPA it is /ˈblædɚ/.

What is another word for bladder?

Close synonyms include vesica. 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 bladder a common word?

bladder 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.

What rhymes with bladder?

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