furniture

Other forms of furniture

plural

furnitures·

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 furniture

What does furniture mean?

furniture means "furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy".

How many syllables are in furniture?

furniture has 3 syllables: fur-ni-ture. The stress falls on "fur". In IPA it is /ˈfɝnɪtʃɚ/.

What is another word for furniture?

Close synonyms include piece of furniture, article of furniture. 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 furniture a common word?

furniture 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.