vale

Other forms of vale

plural

vales·

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 vale

What does vale mean?

vale means "a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river".

How many syllables are in vale?

vale has 1 syllable: vale. In IPA it is /ˈveɪl/.

What is another word for vale?

Close synonyms include valley. 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 vale a common word?

vale 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 vale?

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