lengthen

Other forms of lengthen

past tense

lengthenned·

present participle

lengthenning·

third person

lengthens·

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 lengthen

What does lengthen mean?

lengthen means "make longer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lengthen?

lengthen has 2 syllables: leng-then. The stress falls on "leng". In IPA it is /ˈlɛŋθən/.

What is the opposite of lengthen?

The recorded antonyms are shorten, shorten.

Is lengthen a common word?

lengthen 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.