oriole

Other forms of oriole

plural

orioles·

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 oriole

What does oriole mean?

oriole means "mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oriole?

oriole has 3 syllables: o-rio-le. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹiˌoʊl/.

What is another word for oriole?

Close synonyms include Old World oriole, New World oriole, American oriole. 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 oriole a common word?

oriole 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 oriole?

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