zaire

Other forms of zaire

plural

zaires·

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 zaire

What does zaire mean?

zaire means "the basic unit of money in Zaire". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in zaire?

zaire has 2 syllables: za-ire. The stress falls on "ire". In IPA it is /zaɪˈɪɹ/.

What is another word for zaire?

Close synonyms include Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgian Congo. 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 zaire a common word?

zaire is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 zaire?

1 word rhymes with zaire. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.