eyelid

Other forms of eyelid

plural

eyelids·

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 eyelid

What does eyelid mean?

eyelid means "either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye".

How many syllables are in eyelid?

eyelid has 2 syllables: eye-lid. The stress falls on "eye". In IPA it is /ˈaɪˌlɪd/.

What is another word for eyelid?

Close synonyms include lid, palpebra. 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 eyelid a common word?

eyelid 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.

What rhymes with eyelid?

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