stair

Other forms of stair

plural

stairs·

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 stair

What does stair mean?

stair means "support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway".

How many syllables are in stair?

stair has 1 syllable: stair. In IPA it is /ˈstɛɹ/.

What is another word for stair?

Close synonyms include step. 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 stair a common word?

stair 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 stair?

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