spectre

Other forms of spectre

plural

spectres·

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 spectre

What does spectre mean?

spectre means "a ghostly appearing figure". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spectre?

spectre has 2 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈspɛktɚ/.

What is another word for spectre?

Close synonyms include apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm. 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 spectre a common word?

spectre 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 spectre?

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