radar

Other forms of radar

plural

radars·

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 radar

What does radar mean?

radar means "measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects".

How many syllables are in radar?

radar has 2 syllables: ra-dar. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪˌdɑɹ/.

What is another word for radar?

Close synonyms include microwave radar, radio detection and ranging, radiolocation. 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 radar a common word?

radar is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 radar?

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