odor

Other forms of odor

plural

odors·

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 odor

What does odor mean?

odor means "any property detected by the olfactory system". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in odor?

odor has 2 syllables: o-dor. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊdɚ/.

What is another word for odor?

Close synonyms include olfactory property, smell, aroma, odour, scent. 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 odor a common word?

odor 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 odor?

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