river

Other forms of river

plural

rivers·

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 river

What does river mean?

river means "a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)".

How many syllables are in river?

river has 2 syllables: riv-er. The stress falls on "riv". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪvɚ/.

Is river a common word?

river is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 river?

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