cinder

1. 1.

   a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire

   Synonymsclinker

   Broaderfragment

Other forms of cinder

plural

cinders·

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 cinder

What does cinder mean?

cinder means "a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire".

How many syllables are in cinder?

cinder has 2 syllables: cin-der. The stress falls on "cin". In IPA it is /ˈsɪndɚ/.

What is another word for cinder?

Close synonyms include clinker. 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 cinder a common word?

cinder 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.