dude

Other forms of dude

plural

dudes·

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 dude

What does dude mean?

dude means "an informal form of address for a man". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dude?

dude has 1 syllable: dude. In IPA it is /ˈdud/.

What is another word for dude?

Close synonyms include fellow, buster, dandy, fop, gallant. 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 dude a common word?

dude is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 dude?

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