bowlder

Questions about bowlder

What does bowlder mean?

bowlder means "a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin".

How many syllables are in bowlder?

bowlder has 2 syllables and divides as bowl-der under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bowlder?

Close synonyms include boulder. 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 bowlder a common word?

bowlder 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.