coal

1. 1.

   fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

   Broaderfossil fuelvegetable matter

   Narroweranthracitebituminous coallignitesteam coal
2. 2.

   a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

   Synonymsember

   Broaderfragment

Other forms of coal

plural

coals·

past tense

coaled·

present participle

coaling·

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 coal

What does coal mean?

coal means "burn to charcoal". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coal?

coal has 1 syllable: coal. In IPA it is /ˈkoʊl/.

What is another word for coal?

Close synonyms include char, ember. 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 coal a common word?

coal 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 coal?

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