falderol

Questions about falderol

What does falderol mean?

falderol means "ornamental objects of no great value".

How many syllables are in falderol?

falderol has 3 syllables and divides as fal-de-rol under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for falderol?

Close synonyms include folderal, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense. 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 falderol a common word?

falderol 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.