surd

Other forms of surd

plural

surds·

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 surd

What does surd mean?

surd means "a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surd?

surd has 1 syllable: surd.

What is another word for surd?

Close synonyms include voiceless consonant, unvoiced, voiceless, hard. 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 surd a common word?

surd 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.