mare

Other forms of mare

plural

mares·

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 mare

What does mare mean?

mare means "female equine animal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mare?

mare has 1 syllable: mare. In IPA it is /ˈmɛɹ/.

What is another word for mare?

Close synonyms include female horse, maria. 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 mare a common word?

mare is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 mare?

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