brier

Other forms of brier

plural

briers·

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 brier

What does brier mean?

brier means "tangled mass of prickly plants". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brier?

brier has 2 syllables: bri-er. The stress falls on "bri". In IPA it is /ˈbɹaɪɚ/.

What is another word for brier?

Close synonyms include brierpatch, brier patch, sweetbrier, sweetbriar, briar. 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 brier a common word?

brier 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.

What rhymes with brier?

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