gnaw

Other forms of gnaw

past tense or participle

gnawn

present participle

gnawing·

third person

gnaws·

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 gnaw

What does gnaw mean?

gnaw means "bite or chew on with the teeth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gnaw?

gnaw has 1 syllable: gnaw. In IPA it is /ˈnɔ/.

What is another word for gnaw?

Close synonyms include erode, gnaw at, eat at, wear away. 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 gnaw a common word?

gnaw 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 gnaw?

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