fiber

Other forms of fiber

plural

fibers·

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 fiber

What does fiber mean?

fiber means "a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fiber?

fiber has 2 syllables: fi-ber. The stress falls on "fi". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪbɚ/.

What is another word for fiber?

Close synonyms include fibre, roughage, fibre, character, fibre. 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 fiber a common word?

fiber 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 fiber?

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