followup

Other forms of followup

plural

followups·

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 followup

What does followup mean?

followup means "a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in followup?

followup has 3 syllables: fol-lo-wup. The stress falls on "fol". In IPA it is /ˈfɑloʊˌʌp/.

What is another word for followup?

Close synonyms include follow-up, follow-up, follow-up, reexamination, review. 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 followup a common word?

followup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 followup?

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