smolder

Other forms of smolder

plural

smolders·

past tense

smolderred·

present participle

smolderring·

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 smolder

What does smolder mean?

smolder means "burn slowly and without a flame". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in smolder?

smolder has 2 syllables: smol-der. The stress falls on "smol". In IPA it is /ˈsmoʊldɚ/.

What is another word for smolder?

Close synonyms include smoulder, smoulder, smoulder. 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 smolder a common word?

smolder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.