lodestar

Other forms of lodestar

plural

lodestars·

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 lodestar

What does lodestar mean?

lodestar means "guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lodestar?

lodestar has 2 syllables: lode-star. The stress falls on "lode". In IPA it is /ˈloʊdˌstɑɹ/.

What is another word for lodestar?

Close synonyms include loadstar, loadstar. 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 lodestar a common word?

lodestar 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 lodestar?

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