remains

Other forms of remains

plural

remainses·

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 remains

What does remains mean?

remains means "any object that is left unused or still extant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in remains?

remains has 2 syllables: re-mains. The stress falls on "mains". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈmeɪnz/.

What is another word for remains?

Close synonyms include archeological remains, cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay. 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 remains a common word?

remains 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 remains?

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