salamander

Other forms of salamander

plural

salamanders·

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 salamander

What does salamander mean?

salamander means "any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in salamander?

salamander has 4 syllables: sal-a-man-der. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˌsæləˈmændɚ/.

What is another word for salamander?

Close synonyms include poker, stove poker, fire hook. 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 salamander a common word?

salamander is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 salamander?

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