fever

Other forms of fever

plural

fevers·

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 fever

What does fever mean?

fever means "a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fever?

fever has 2 syllables: fe-ver. The stress falls on "fe". In IPA it is /ˈfivɚ/.

What is another word for fever?

Close synonyms include febrility, febricity, pyrexia, feverishness. 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 fever a common word?

fever 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.