reverie

Other forms of reverie

plural

reveries·

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 reverie

What does reverie mean?

reverie means "absentminded dreaming while awake". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reverie?

reverie has 3 syllables: rev-e-rie. The stress falls on "rev". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛvɚi/.

What is another word for reverie?

Close synonyms include revery, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, air castle. 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 reverie a common word?

reverie 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.