tornado

Other forms of tornado

plural

tornadoes

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 tornado

What does tornado mean?

tornado means "a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tornado?

tornado has 3 syllables: tor-na-do. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /tɔɹˈneɪˌdoʊ/.

What is another word for tornado?

Close synonyms include twister, crack, crack cocaine. 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 tornado a common word?

tornado 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 tornado?

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