sister

Other forms of sister

plural

sisters·

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 sister

What does sister mean?

sister means "a female person who has the same parents as another person". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sister?

sister has 2 syllables: sis-ter. The stress falls on "sis". In IPA it is /ˈsɪstɚ/.

What is another word for sister?

Close synonyms include sis. 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.

What is the opposite of sister?

The recorded antonyms are brother.

Is sister a common word?

sister 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 sister?

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