rainfall

Other forms of rainfall

plural

rainfalls·

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 rainfall

What does rainfall mean?

rainfall means "water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere".

How many syllables are in rainfall?

rainfall has 2 syllables: rain-fall. The stress falls on "rain". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪnˌfɔl/.

What is another word for rainfall?

Close synonyms include rain. 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 rainfall a common word?

rainfall 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 rainfall?

11 words rhyme with rainfall. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.