lessen

Other forms of lessen

past tense

lessenned·

present participle

lessenning·

third person

lessens·

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 lessen

What does lessen mean?

lessen means "decrease in size, extent, or range". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lessen?

lessen has 2 syllables: les-sen. The stress falls on "les". In IPA it is /ˈlɛsən/.

What is another word for lessen?

Close synonyms include decrease, diminish, fall, decrease, minify. 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 lessen a common word?

lessen 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 lessen?

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