harry

Other forms of harry

past tense or participle

harried

present participle

harrying·

third person

harries·

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 harry

What does harry mean?

harry means "annoy continually or chronically". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in harry?

harry has 2 syllables: har-ry. The stress falls on "har". In IPA it is /ˈhɛɹi/.

What is another word for harry?

Close synonyms include harass, hassle, chivy, chivvy, chevy. 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 harry a common word?

harry is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 harry?

1 word rhymes with harry. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.