crossover

Other forms of crossover

plural

crossovers·

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 crossover

What does crossover mean?

crossover means "the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crossover?

crossover has 3 syllables: cros-so-ver. The stress falls on "cros". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɔˌsoʊvɚ/.

What is another word for crossover?

Close synonyms include crossing over, crossover voter, crossing, crosswalk. 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 crossover a common word?

crossover 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 crossover?

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