motif

Other forms of motif

plural

motifs·

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 motif

What does motif mean?

motif means "a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in motif?

motif has 2 syllables: mo-tif. The stress falls on "tif". In IPA it is /moʊˈtif/.

What is another word for motif?

Close synonyms include motive, motive, theme. 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 motif a common word?

motif 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 motif?

2 words rhyme with motif. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.