buttress

Other forms of buttress

plural

buttresses·

past tense

buttressed·

present participle

buttressing·

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 buttress

What does buttress mean?

buttress means "reinforce with a buttress". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buttress?

buttress has 2 syllables: but-tress. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /ˈbʌtɹəs/.

What is another word for buttress?

Close synonyms include buttressing. 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 buttress a common word?

buttress 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.