leapfrog

1. 1.

   advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors

   “the company still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay huge dividends”

   Broaderprogress
2. 2.

   a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over

   Broaderchild's game

1. 1.

   jump across

   “He leapfrogged his classmates”

   Broaderjump
2. 2.

   progress by large jumps instead of small increments

   Broaderprogress

Other forms of leapfrog

plural

leapfrogs·

past tense or participle

leapfrogged

present participle

leapfrogging

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 leapfrog

What does leapfrog mean?

leapfrog means "advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in leapfrog?

leapfrog has 2 syllables: leap-frog. The stress falls on "leap". In IPA it is /ˈlipˌfɹɔɡ/.

Is leapfrog a common word?

leapfrog is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 leapfrog?

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