froth

1. 1.

   become bubbly or frothy or foaming

   “The boiling soup was frothing”

   “The river was foaming”

   “sparkling water”

   Synonymsfoamfizzeffervescesparkleform bubbles

   Broaderbubble

   Narrowerlatherseethe
2. 2.

   make froth or foam and become bubbly

   “The river foamed”

   Synonymsspumesuds

   Broadermake
3. 3.

   exude or expel foam

   “the angry man was frothing at the mouth”

   Broaderexude

   Narrowerlather

1. 1.

   a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid

   “the beer had a thick head of foam”

   Synonymsfoam

   Broaderbubble

   Narrowershaving foamheadlathersoapsudsspumewhite water

Other forms of froth

plural

froths·

past tense

frothed·

present participle

frothing·

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 froth

What does froth mean?

froth means "become bubbly or frothy or foaming". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in froth?

froth has 1 syllable: froth. In IPA it is /ˈfɹɔθ/.

What is another word for froth?

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

froth 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.