hiccough

Other forms of hiccough

plural

hiccoughs·

past tense

hiccoughed·

present participle

hiccoughing·

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 hiccough

What does hiccough mean?

hiccough means "(usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hiccough?

hiccough has 2 syllables: hic-cough. The stress falls on "hic". In IPA it is /ˈhɪkəp/.

What is another word for hiccough?

Close synonyms include hiccup, singultus, hiccup. 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 hiccough a common word?

hiccough 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.

What rhymes with hiccough?

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