pal

Other forms of pal

plural

pals·

past tense or participle

palled

present participle

palling

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 pal

What does pal mean?

pal means "a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pal?

pal has 1 syllable: pal. In IPA it is /ˈpæl/.

What is another word for pal?

Close synonyms include buddy, brother, chum, crony, sidekick. 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 pal a common word?

pal 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.