boycott

Other forms of boycott

plural

boycotts·

past tense

boycotted·

present participle

boycotting·

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 boycott

What does boycott mean?

boycott means "a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boycott?

boycott has 2 syllables: boy-cott. The stress falls on "boy". In IPA it is /ˈbɔɪˌkɑt/.

What is the opposite of boycott?

The recorded antonyms are patronize, patronise.

Is boycott a common word?

boycott is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 boycott?

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