affront

Other forms of affront

plural

affronts·

past tense

affronted·

present participle

affronting·

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 affront

What does affront mean?

affront means "a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in affront?

affront has 2 syllables: af-front. The stress falls on "front". In IPA it is /əˈfɹʌnt/.

What is another word for affront?

Close synonyms include insult, diss, insult. 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 affront a common word?

affront 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 affront?

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