wood

Other forms of wood

plural

woods·

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 wood

What does wood mean?

wood means "the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wood?

wood has 1 syllable: wood. In IPA it is /ˈwʊd/.

What is another word for wood?

Close synonyms include forest, woods, Natalie Wood, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Henry Joseph Wood. 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 wood a common word?

wood 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 wood?

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