ague

Other forms of ague

plural

agues·

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 ague

What does ague mean?

ague means "a fit of shivering or shaking". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ague?

ague has 2 syllables: a-gue. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˈeɪɡˌju/.

What is another word for ague?

Close synonyms include chills and fever, acute accent, acute. 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 ague a common word?

ague is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 ague?

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