welfare

Other forms of welfare

plural

welfares·

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 welfare

What does welfare mean?

welfare means "governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in welfare?

welfare has 2 syllables: wel-fare. The stress falls on "wel". In IPA it is /ˈwɛlˌfɛɹ/.

What is another word for welfare?

Close synonyms include social welfare, public assistance, benefit, wellbeing, well-being. 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 welfare a common word?

welfare 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 welfare?

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