maraud

Other forms of maraud

plural

marauds·

past tense

marauded·

present participle

marauding·

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 maraud

What does maraud mean?

maraud means "a sudden short attack". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in maraud?

maraud has 2 syllables: ma-raud. The stress falls on "raud". In IPA it is /mɚˈɔd/.

What is another word for maraud?

Close synonyms include foray, raid. 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 maraud a common word?

maraud 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.

What rhymes with maraud?

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