fatten

Other forms of fatten

past tense

fattenned·

present participle

fattenning·

third person

fattens·

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 fatten

What does fatten mean?

fatten means "make fat or plump".

How many syllables are in fatten?

fatten has 2 syllables: fat-ten. The stress falls on "fat". In IPA it is /ˈfætən/.

What is another word for fatten?

Close synonyms include fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out. 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 fatten a common word?

fatten 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.