asterisk

Other forms of asterisk

plural

asterisks·

past tense

asterisked·

present participle

asterisking·

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 asterisk

What does asterisk mean?

asterisk means "a star-shaped character * used in printing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in asterisk?

asterisk has 3 syllables: as-te-risk. The stress falls on "as". In IPA it is /ˈæstɚɪsk/.

What is another word for asterisk?

Close synonyms include star, star. 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 asterisk a common word?

asterisk 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.