pail

Other forms of pail

plural

pails·

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 pail

What does pail mean?

pail means "a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pail?

pail has 1 syllable: pail. In IPA it is /ˈpeɪl/.

What is another word for pail?

Close synonyms include bucket, pailful. 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 pail a common word?

pail 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 pail?

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