idiot

Other forms of idiot

plural

idiots·

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 idiot

What does idiot mean?

idiot means "a person of subnormal intelligence".

How many syllables are in idiot?

idiot has 3 syllables: id-i-ot. The stress falls on "id". In IPA it is /ˈɪˌdiət/.

What is another word for idiot?

Close synonyms include imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit. 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 idiot a common word?

idiot 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 idiot?

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