favorite

1. 1.

   appealing to the general public

   “a favorite tourist attraction”

   Synonymsfavourite

   Similarpopular
2. 2.

   preferred above all others and treated with partiality

   “the favored child”

   Synonymsfavoredfavouritebest-lovedpetpreferredpreferent

   Similarloved

Other forms of favorite

plural

favorites·

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 favorite

What does favorite mean?

favorite means "something regarded with special favor or liking". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in favorite?

favorite has 3 syllables: fa-vo-rite. The stress falls on "fa". In IPA it is /ˈfeɪvɚɪt/.

What is another word for favorite?

Close synonyms include favourite, darling, favourite, pet, dearie. 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 favorite a common word?

favorite 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 favorite?

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