moil

Other forms of moil

past tense

moiled·

present participle

moiling·

third person

moils·

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 moil

What does moil mean?

moil means "work hard". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in moil?

moil has 1 syllable: moil.

What is another word for moil?

Close synonyms include labor, labour, toil, fag, travail. 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 moil a common word?

moil 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.