distort

Other forms of distort

past tense

distorted·

present participle

distorting·

third person

distorts·

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 distort

What does distort mean?

distort means "make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in distort?

distort has 2 syllables: di-stort. The stress falls on "stort". In IPA it is /dɪˈstɔɹt/.

What is another word for distort?

Close synonyms include falsify, garble, warp, twist, twine. 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 distort a common word?

distort 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 distort?

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