hoar

Other forms of hoar

plural

hoars·

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 hoar

What does hoar mean?

hoar means "ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hoar?

hoar has 1 syllable: hoar. In IPA it is /ˈhɔɹ/.

What is another word for hoar?

Close synonyms include frost, hoarfrost, rime, grey, gray. 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 hoar a common word?

hoar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 hoar?

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