kail

Other forms of kail

plural

kails·

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 kail

What does kail mean?

kail means "a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kail?

kail has 1 syllable: kail. In IPA it is /ˈkeɪl/.

What is another word for kail?

Close synonyms include kale, cole, borecole, colewort, Brassica oleracea acephala. 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 kail a common word?

kail 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 kail?

1 word rhymes with kail. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.