downswing

Questions about downswing

What does downswing mean?

downswing means "a swing downward of a golf club". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in downswing?

downswing has 2 syllables: down-swing. The stress falls on "down". In IPA it is /ˈdaʊnˌswɪŋ/.

What is another word for downswing?

Close synonyms include downturn. 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 downswing a common word?

downswing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 downswing?

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