friend

Other forms of friend

plural

friends·

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 friend

What does friend mean?

friend means "a person you know well and regard with affection and trust". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in friend?

friend has 1 syllable: friend. In IPA it is /ˈfɹɛnd/.

What is another word for friend?

Close synonyms include ally, acquaintance, supporter, protagonist, champion. 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.

What is the opposite of friend?

The recorded antonyms are foe.

Is friend a common word?

friend 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 friend?

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