chagrin

Other forms of chagrin

plural

chagrins·

past tense

chagrinned·

present participle

chagrinning·

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 chagrin

What does chagrin mean?

chagrin means "strong feelings of embarrassment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chagrin?

chagrin has 2 syllables: cha-grin. The stress falls on "grin". In IPA it is /ʃəˈɡɹɪn/.

What is another word for chagrin?

Close synonyms include humiliation, mortification, humiliate, mortify, humble. 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 chagrin a common word?

chagrin 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.

What rhymes with chagrin?

1 word rhymes with chagrin. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.