knap

Other forms of knap

past tense or participle

knapped

present participle

knapping

third person

knaps·

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 knap

What does knap mean?

knap means "strike sharply". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in knap?

knap has 1 syllable: knap.

What is another word for knap?

Close synonyms include rap, chip, cut off, break off. 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 knap a common word?

knap 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.