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Other forms of or

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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 or

What does or mean?

or means "a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in or?

or has 1 syllable: or. In IPA it is /ˈɔɹ/.

What is another word for or?

Close synonyms include Oregon, Beaver State, Ore., operating room, operating theater. 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 or a common word?

or is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 or?

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