outfox

Other forms of outfox

past tense

outfoxed·

present participle

outfoxing·

third person

outfoxes·

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 outfox

What does outfox mean?

outfox means "outdo someone in trickery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outfox?

outfox has 2 syllables: out-fox. The stress falls on "fox". In IPA it is /aʊtˈfɑks/.

What is another word for outfox?

Close synonyms include outwit, overreach, outsmart, beat, circumvent. 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 outfox a common word?

outfox 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 outfox?

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