rails

Other forms of rails

plural

railses·

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 rails

What does rails mean?

rails means "a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll".

How many syllables are in rails?

rails has 1 syllable: rails. In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪlz/.

What is another word for rails?

Close synonyms include track, rail, runway. 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 rails a common word?

rails 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.