fissure

1. 1.

   break into fissures or fine cracks

   Broadercrack

Other forms of fissure

plural

fissures·

past tense

fissured·

present participle

fissuring·

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 fissure

What does fissure mean?

fissure means "a long narrow depression in a surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fissure?

fissure has 2 syllables: fis-sure. The stress falls on "fis". In IPA it is /ˈfɪʃɚ/.

What is another word for fissure?

Close synonyms include crevice, cranny, crack, chap, crack. 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 fissure a common word?

fissure 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 fissure?

3 words rhyme with fissure. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.