underwear

Other forms of underwear

plural

underwears·

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 underwear

What does underwear mean?

underwear means "undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments".

How many syllables are in underwear?

underwear has 3 syllables: un-der-wear. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚˌwɛɹ/.

What is another word for underwear?

Close synonyms include underclothes, underclothing. 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 underwear a common word?

underwear is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 underwear?

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