pallor

Other forms of pallor

plural

pallors·

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 pallor

What does pallor mean?

pallor means "unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)".

How many syllables are in pallor?

pallor has 2 syllables: pal-lor. The stress falls on "pal".

What is another word for pallor?

Close synonyms include lividness, lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness. 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 pallor a common word?

pallor 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.