cavalry

Other forms of cavalry

plural

cavalries·

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 cavalry

What does cavalry mean?

cavalry means "troops trained to fight on horseback". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cavalry?

cavalry has 3 syllables: cav-al-ry. The stress falls on "cav". In IPA it is /ˈkævəlɹi/.

What is another word for cavalry?

Close synonyms include horse cavalry, horse. 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 cavalry a common word?

cavalry 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.