modal

Other forms of modal

plural

modals·

comparative

modaller·

superlative

modallest·

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 modal

What does modal mean?

modal means "relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in modal?

modal has 2 syllables: mo-dal. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˈmoʊdəl/.

What is another word for modal?

Close synonyms include average, modal auxiliary verb, modal auxiliary, modal verb. 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 modal a common word?

modal 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 modal?

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