hear

Other forms of hear

past tense or participle

heard

present participle

hearing·

third person

hears·

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 hear

What does hear mean?

hear means "perceive (sound) via the auditory sense". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hear?

hear has 1 syllable: hear. In IPA it is /ˈhiɹ/.

What is another word for hear?

Close synonyms include learn, get word, get wind, pick up, find out. 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 hear a common word?

hear 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 hear?

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