fanfare

Other forms of fanfare

plural

fanfares·

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 fanfare

What does fanfare mean?

fanfare means "a gaudy outward display". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fanfare?

fanfare has 2 syllables: fan-fare. The stress falls on "fan". In IPA it is /ˈfænˌfɛɹ/.

What is another word for fanfare?

Close synonyms include ostentation, flash, flourish, tucket. 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 fanfare a common word?

fanfare is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 fanfare?

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