rancor

Other forms of rancor

plural

rancors·

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 rancor

What does rancor mean?

rancor means "a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will".

How many syllables are in rancor?

rancor has 2 syllables: ran-cor. The stress falls on "ran". In IPA it is /ˈɹæŋkɚ/.

What is another word for rancor?

Close synonyms include resentment, bitterness, gall, rancour. 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 rancor a common word?

rancor 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.

What rhymes with rancor?

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