waterfall

Other forms of waterfall

plural

waterfalls·

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 waterfall

What does waterfall mean?

waterfall means "a steep descent of the water of a river".

How many syllables are in waterfall?

waterfall has 3 syllables: wa-ter-fall. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈwɔtɚˌfɔl/.

What is another word for waterfall?

Close synonyms include falls. 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 waterfall a common word?

waterfall 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 waterfall?

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