molest

Other forms of molest

past tense

molested·

present participle

molesting·

third person

molests·

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 molest

What does molest mean?

molest means "harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in molest?

molest has 2 syllables: mo-lest. The stress falls on "lest". In IPA it is /məˈlɛst/.

What is another word for molest?

Close synonyms include harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy. 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 molest a common word?

molest 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 molest?

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