pillar

Other forms of pillar

plural

pillars·

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 pillar

What does pillar mean?

pillar means "a fundamental principle or practice". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pillar?

pillar has 2 syllables: pil-lar. The stress falls on "pil". In IPA it is /ˈpɪlɚ/.

What is another word for pillar?

Close synonyms include column, tower, mainstay, column, column. 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 pillar a common word?

pillar 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 pillar?

1 word rhymes with pillar. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.