deer

Other forms of deer

plural

deer(unchanged)

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 deer

What does deer mean?

deer means "distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers".

How many syllables are in deer?

deer has 1 syllable: deer. In IPA it is /ˈdɪɹ/.

What is another word for deer?

Close synonyms include cervid. 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 deer a common word?

deer 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 deer?

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