ribald

Other forms of ribald

plural

ribalds·

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 ribald

What does ribald mean?

ribald means "a ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ribald?

ribald has 2 syllables: ri-bald. The stress falls on "ri". In IPA it is /ˈɹaɪbɑld/.

What is another word for ribald?

Close synonyms include bawdy, off-color. 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 ribald a common word?

ribald 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.