char

1. 1.

   burn to charcoal

   “Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything”

   Synonymscoal

   Broaderburn
2. 2.

   burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color

   “The cook blackened the chicken breast”

   “The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece”

   “the flames scorched the ceiling”

   Synonymsblackensearscorch

   Broaderburn

   Narrowersinge

   cooking

Other forms of char

plural

chars·

past tense or participle

charred

present participle

charring

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 char

What does char mean?

char means "a charred substance". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in char?

char has 1 syllable: char. In IPA it is /ˈtʃɑɹ/.

What is another word for char?

Close synonyms include charwoman, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman, charr. 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 char a common word?

char 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 char?

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