larder
/ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/noun
larder is spelled L-A-R-D-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, larder means “A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of larder is larders.
How many letters and syllables are in larder?
| Letters | 6: L-A-R-D-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 51,129th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is larder?
Larder appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce larder?
- UK /ˈlɑː.də/
- US /ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/
Larder has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-larder.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with larder?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as larder from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹdəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: radler.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of larder
- larders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does larder mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored.
He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he we
- 2
A food supply.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Larder in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cool room used as food storage:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | garde-manger, cellier |
| German | Kühlraum, Speisekammer, Vorratsraum |
| Portuguese | despensa |
| Spanish | despensa, alacena |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does larder come from?
Inherited from Middle English larder, from Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).