frighten

Other forms of frighten

past tense

frightenned·

present participle

frightenning·

third person

frightens·

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 frighten

What does frighten mean?

frighten means "cause fear in".

How many syllables are in frighten?

frighten has 2 syllables: frigh-ten. The stress falls on "frigh". In IPA it is /ˈfɹaɪtən/.

What is another word for frighten?

Close synonyms include fright, scare, affright. 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 frighten a common word?

frighten is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.