island

Other forms of island

plural

islands·

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 island

What does island mean?

island means "a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in island?

island has 2 syllables: i-sland. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪlənd/.

Is island a common word?

island 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.