cavort

Other forms of cavort

past tense

cavorted·

present participle

cavorting·

third person

cavorts·

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 cavort

What does cavort mean?

cavort means "play boisterously".

How many syllables are in cavort?

cavort has 2 syllables: ca-vort. The stress falls on "vort". In IPA it is /kəˈvɔɹt/.

What is another word for cavort?

Close synonyms include frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport. 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 cavort a common word?

cavort 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.