smoulder

Other forms of smoulder

plural

smoulders·

past tense

smoulderred·

present participle

smoulderring·

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 smoulder

What does smoulder mean?

smoulder means "have strong suppressed feelings". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in smoulder?

smoulder has 2 syllables: smoul-der. The stress falls on "der".

What is another word for smoulder?

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

smoulder 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.