accost

Other forms of accost

past tense

accosted·

present participle

accosting·

third person

accosts·

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 accost

What does accost mean?

accost means "speak to someone". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accost?

accost has 2 syllables: ac-cost. The stress falls on "cost". In IPA it is /əˈkɔst/.

What is another word for accost?

Close synonyms include address, come up to, hook, solicit. 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 accost a common word?

accost 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 accost?

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