warfare

Other forms of warfare

plural

warfares·

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 warfare

What does warfare mean?

warfare means "the waging of armed conflict against an enemy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in warfare?

warfare has 2 syllables: war-fare. The stress falls on "war". In IPA it is /ˈwɔɹˌfɛɹ/.

What is another word for warfare?

Close synonyms include war, war. 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 warfare a common word?

warfare 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 warfare?

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