timber

Other forms of timber

plural

timbers·

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 timber

What does timber mean?

timber means "the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in timber?

timber has 2 syllables: tim-ber. The stress falls on "tim". In IPA it is /ˈtɪmbɚ/.

What is another word for timber?

Close synonyms include lumber, forest, woodland, timberland, timbre. 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 timber a common word?

timber is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 timber?

1 word rhymes with timber. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.