decoy

1. 1.

   lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy

   Broaderentice

Other forms of decoy

plural

decoys·

past tense

decoyed·

present participle

decoying·

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 decoy

What does decoy mean?

decoy means "a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decoy?

decoy has 2 syllables: de-coy. The stress falls on "coy". In IPA it is /dəˈkɔɪ/.

What is another word for decoy?

Close synonyms include steerer, bait, lure. 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 decoy a common word?

decoy 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 decoy?

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