growth

Other forms of growth

plural

growths·

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 growth

What does growth mean?

growth means "(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in growth?

growth has 1 syllable: growth. In IPA it is /ˈɡɹoʊθ/.

What is another word for growth?

Close synonyms include growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis. 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 growth a common word?

growth 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.

What rhymes with growth?

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