idea

Other forms of idea

plural

ideas·

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 idea

What does idea mean?

idea means "the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in idea?

idea has 3 syllables: i-de-a. The stress falls on "de". In IPA it is /aɪˈdiə/.

What is another word for idea?

Close synonyms include thought, mind, estimate, estimation, approximation. 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 idea a common word?

idea 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 idea?

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