outsmart

Other forms of outsmart

past tense

outsmarted·

present participle

outsmarting·

third person

outsmarts·

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 outsmart

What does outsmart mean?

outsmart means "beat through cleverness and wit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outsmart?

outsmart has 2 syllables: out-smart. The stress falls on "out". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtˌsmɑɹt/.

What is another word for outsmart?

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

outsmart is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 outsmart?

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