Another word for common

Accepted, average, boorish, coarse, and cloddish are another word for common. Unusual and rare are the opposites of common. On this page, find 87 synonyms for common, parts of speech, and examples of common sentences.

Common synonyms

1. habitual

  • Accepted
  • Commonplace
  • Conventional
  • Customary
  • Daily
  • Day-to-day
  • Established
  • Everyday
  • Familiar
  • Frequent
  • General
  • Habitual
  • In circulation
  • In force
  • Mainstream
  • Mundane
  • Ordinary
  • Orthodox
  • Popular
  • Predictable
  • Prevailing
  • Prevalent
  • Quotidian
  • Recurrent
  • Regular
  • Repeated
  • Rife
  • Routine
  • Run-of-the-mill
  • Standard
  • Stereotyped
  • Stock
  • Traditional
  • Traditionalist
  • Typical
  • Universal
  • Usual
  • Well established
  • Widespread
  • Wonted
  • In vogue

2. ordinary

  • Average
  • Normal
  • Ordinary
  • Plain
  • Run-of-the-mill
  • Typical
  • Unexceptional
  • Simple

3. vulgar.

  • Boorish
  • Brutish
  • Cloddish
  • Clodhopping
  • Coarse
  • Common as muck
  • Gross
  • Humble
  • Ignoble
  • Ill-bred
  • Ill-mannered
  • Impolite
  • Inferior
  • Low-born
  • Low-class
  • Low-ranking
  • Low
  • Lowly
  • Oafish
  • Philistine
  • Plebby
  • Plebeian
  • Primitive
  • Proletarian
  • Rough
  • Rude
  • Savage
  • Slobbish
  • Uncivilized
  • Uncouth
  • Ungentlemanly
  • Unladylike
  • Unrefined
  • Unsavoury
  • Unsophisticated
  • Vulgar
  • Baseborn

Common sentences

It’s a common mistake among beginners.

We share a common love for art.

That’s a common phrase in this region.

They found common ground very quickly.

Common parts of speech

Adjective