brew

Other forms of brew

plural

brews·

past tense

brewed·

present participle

brewing·

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 brew

What does brew mean?

brew means "prepare by brewing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brew?

brew has 1 syllable: brew. In IPA it is /ˈbɹu/.

What is another word for brew?

Close synonyms include brewage. 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 brew a common word?

brew 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.