harrow

Other forms of harrow

plural

harrows·

past tense

harrowed·

present participle

harrowing·

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 harrow

What does harrow mean?

harrow means "a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in harrow?

harrow has 2 syllables: har-row. The stress falls on "har". In IPA it is /ˈhæɹoʊ/.

What is another word for harrow?

Close synonyms include disk. 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 harrow a common word?

harrow 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.