abut

Other forms of abut

past tense or participle

abutted

present participle

abutting

third person

abuts·

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 abut

What does abut mean?

abut means "lie adjacent to another or share a boundary".

How many syllables are in abut?

abut has 2 syllables: a-but. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /əˈbʌt/.

What is another word for abut?

Close synonyms include border, adjoin, edge, march, butt. 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 abut a common word?

abut 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 abut?

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