hoe

Other forms of hoe

plural

hoes·

past tense

hoed·

present participle

hoing·

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 hoe

What does hoe mean?

hoe means "a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hoe?

hoe has 1 syllable: hoe. In IPA it is /ˈhoʊ/.

Is hoe a common word?

hoe 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 hoe?

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