fistfight

Other forms of fistfight

plural

fistfights·

past tense

fistfighted·

present participle

fistfighting·

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 fistfight

What does fistfight mean?

fistfight means "a fight with bare fists". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fistfight?

fistfight has 2 syllables: fist-fight. The stress falls on "fist".

What is another word for fistfight?

Close synonyms include fisticuffs, slugfest. 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 fistfight a common word?

fistfight 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.