ear

Other forms of ear

plural

ears·

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 ear

What does ear mean?

ear means "the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ear?

ear has 1 syllable: ear. In IPA it is /ˈiɹ/.

What is another word for ear?

Close synonyms include auricle, pinna, spike, capitulum. 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 ear a common word?

ear 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.