road

Other forms of road

plural

roads·

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 road

What does road mean?

road means "an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in road?

road has 1 syllable: road. In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊd/.

What is another word for road?

Close synonyms include route. 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 road a common word?

road 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 road?

4 words rhyme with road. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.