count

1. 1.

   the total number counted

   “a blood count”

   Broadernumber

   Narrowercomplementblood countbody countcirculationhead countpollen countsperm count
2. 2.

   the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

   “the counting continued for several hours”

   Synonymscountingnumerationenumerationreckoningtally

   Broaderinvestigation

   Narrowerblood countcensuscountdownmiscount
3. 3.

   a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl

   BroaderLord

   Narrowercount palatinelandgrave

Other forms of count

plural

counts·

past tense

counted·

present participle

counting·

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 count

What does count mean?

count means "determine the number or amount of". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in count?

count has 1 syllable: count. In IPA it is /ˈkaʊnt/.

What is another word for count?

Close synonyms include number, enumerate, numerate, matter, weigh. 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 count a common word?

count is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 count?

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