highlight

Other forms of highlight

plural

highlights·

past tense

highlighted·

present participle

highlighting·

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 highlight

What does highlight mean?

highlight means "the most interesting or memorable part". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in highlight?

highlight has 2 syllables: high-light. The stress falls on "high". In IPA it is /ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/.

What is another word for highlight?

Close synonyms include high spot, highlighting, foreground, spotlight, play up. 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 highlight a common word?

highlight is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 highlight?

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