son

Other forms of son

plural

sons·

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 son

What does son mean?

son means "a male human offspring". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in son?

son has 1 syllable: son. In IPA it is /ˈsʌn/.

What is another word for son?

Close synonyms include boy, Word, Logos. 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 son?

The recorded antonyms are daughter.

Is son a common word?

son 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 son?

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