foment

Other forms of foment

past tense

fomented·

present participle

fomenting·

third person

foments·

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 foment

What does foment mean?

foment means "try to stir up public opinion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foment?

foment has 2 syllables: fo-ment. The stress falls on "fo". In IPA it is /ˈfoʊmɛnt/.

What is another word for foment?

Close synonyms include agitate, stir up. 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 foment a common word?

foment 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.