listen

Other forms of listen

past tense

listenned·

present participle

listenning·

third person

listens·

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 listen

What does listen mean?

listen means "hear with intention". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in listen?

listen has 2 syllables: lis-ten. The stress falls on "lis". In IPA it is /ˈlɪsən/.

What is another word for listen?

Close synonyms include hear, take heed, heed, mind. 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 listen a common word?

listen 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.