rumor

Other forms of rumor

plural

rumors·

past tense

rumorred·

present participle

rumorring·

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 rumor

What does rumor mean?

rumor means "gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rumor?

rumor has 2 syllables: ru-mor. The stress falls on "ru". In IPA it is /ˈɹumɚ/.

What is another word for rumor?

Close synonyms include rumour, hearsay, rumour, bruit. 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 rumor a common word?

rumor is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 rumor?

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