boar

Other forms of boar

plural

boars·

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 boar

What does boar mean?

boar means "Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boar?

boar has 1 syllable: boar. In IPA it is /ˈbɔɹ/.

What is another word for boar?

Close synonyms include wild boar, Sus scrofa. 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 boar a common word?

boar 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 boar?

5 words rhyme with boar. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.