chaperone

Other forms of chaperone

plural

chaperones·

past tense

chaperoned·

present participle

chaperoning·

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 chaperone

What does chaperone mean?

chaperone means "one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chaperone?

chaperone has 3 syllables: chap-e-rone. The stress falls on "chap". In IPA it is /ˈʃæpɚˌoʊn/.

What is another word for chaperone?

Close synonyms include chaperon, chaperon. 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 chaperone a common word?

chaperone 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 chaperone?

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