forehand

Other forms of forehand

plural

forehands·

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 forehand

What does forehand mean?

forehand means "(sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in forehand?

forehand has 2 syllables: fore-hand. The stress falls on "fore". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹˌhænd/.

What is another word for forehand?

Close synonyms include forehand stroke, forehand shot, forehanded. 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.

What is the opposite of forehand?

The recorded antonyms are backhand.

Is forehand a common word?

forehand 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 forehand?

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