manner

Other forms of manner

plural

manners·

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 manner

What does manner mean?

manner means "how something is done or how it happens". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in manner?

manner has 2 syllables: man-ner. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmænɚ/.

What is another word for manner?

Close synonyms include mode, style, way, fashion, personal manner. 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 manner a common word?

manner is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 manner?

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