hill

1. 1.

   form into a hill

   Broadershape

Other forms of hill

plural

hills·

past tense

hilled·

present participle

hilling·

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 hill

What does hill mean?

hill means "a local and well-defined elevation of the land". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hill?

hill has 1 syllable: hill. In IPA it is /ˈhɪl/.

What is another word for hill?

Close synonyms include mound, J. J. Hill, James Jerome Hill, Benny Hill, Alfred Hawthorne. 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 hill a common word?

hill is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 hill?

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