foam

1. 1.

   become bubbly or frothy or foaming

   “The boiling soup was frothing”

   “The river was foaming”

   “sparkling water”

   Synonymsfrothfizzeffervescesparkleform bubbles

   Broaderbubble

   Narrowerlatherseethe

Other forms of foam

plural

foams·

past tense

foamed·

present participle

foaming·

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 foam

What does foam mean?

foam means "a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foam?

foam has 1 syllable: foam. In IPA it is /ˈfoʊm/.

What is another word for foam?

Close synonyms include froth, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle. 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 foam a common word?

foam is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 foam?

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