heighten

Other forms of heighten

past tense

heightenned·

present participle

heightenning·

third person

heightens·

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 heighten

What does heighten mean?

heighten means "become more extreme". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heighten?

heighten has 2 syllables: heigh-ten. The stress falls on "heigh". In IPA it is /ˈhaɪtən/.

What is another word for heighten?

Close synonyms include rise, enhance, raise, sharpen, intensify. 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 heighten a common word?

heighten 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.