fault

1. 1.

   put or pin the blame on

   Synonymsblame

   Broadercharge

Other forms of fault

plural

faults·

past tense

faulted·

present participle

faulting·

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 fault

What does fault mean?

fault means "a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fault?

fault has 1 syllable: fault. In IPA it is /ˈfɔlt/.

What is another word for fault?

Close synonyms include mistake, error, defect, flaw, demerit. 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 fault a common word?

fault is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 fault?

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