vapor

Other forms of vapor

plural

vapors·

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 vapor

What does vapor mean?

vapor means "a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vapor?

vapor has 2 syllables: va-por. The stress falls on "va". In IPA it is /ˈveɪpɚ/.

What is another word for vapor?

Close synonyms include vapour, vaporization, vaporisation, vapour, evaporation. 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 vapor a common word?

vapor 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.