carol

Other forms of carol

plural

carols·

past tense or participle

carolled

present participle

carolling

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 carol

What does carol mean?

carol means "joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carol?

carol has 2 syllables: car-ol. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkæɹəl/.

What is another word for carol?

Close synonyms include Christmas carol. 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 carol a common word?

carol is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 carol?

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