hew

Other forms of hew

past tense or participle

hewn

present participle

hewing·

third person

hews·

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 hew

What does hew mean?

hew means "make or shape as with an axe". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hew?

hew has 1 syllable: hew. In IPA it is /ˈhju/.

What is another word for hew?

Close synonyms include hew 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 hew a common word?

hew 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.

What rhymes with hew?

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