ir

Other forms of ir

plural

irs·

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 ir

What does ir mean?

ir means "a heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmium". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ir?

ir has 1 syllable: ir.

What is another word for ir?

Close synonyms include iridium, atomic number 77, Inland Revenue. 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 ir a common word?

ir is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.