rial

Other forms of rial

plural

rials·

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 rial

What does rial mean?

rial means "the basic unit of money in Yemen; equal to 100 fils". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rial?

rial has 2 syllables: ri-al. The stress falls on "ri". In IPA it is /ˈɹaɪəl/.

What is another word for rial?

Close synonyms include Yemeni rial, riyal-omani, Omani rial, Iranian rial. 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 rial a common word?

rial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.