inferno

Other forms of inferno

plural

infernoes·

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 inferno

What does inferno mean?

inferno means "any place of pain and turmoil". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inferno?

inferno has 3 syllables: in-fer-no. The stress falls on "fer". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈfɝˌnoʊ/.

What is another word for inferno?

Close synonyms include hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits. 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 inferno a common word?

inferno 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 inferno?

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