hemstitch

Other forms of hemstitch

plural

hemstitches·

past tense

hemstitched·

present participle

hemstitching·

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 hemstitch

What does hemstitch mean?

hemstitch means "a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hemstitch?

hemstitch has 2 syllables: hem-stitch. The stress falls on "hem".

What is another word for hemstitch?

Close synonyms include hemstitching. 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 hemstitch a common word?

hemstitch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.