odour

Other forms of odour

plural

odours·

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 odour

What does odour mean?

odour means "the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in odour?

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

What is another word for odour?

Close synonyms include smell, odor, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception, olfactory property. 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 odour a common word?

odour is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 odour?

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