parachute

1. 1.

   jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

   Synonymschutejump

   Broaderdive

   Narrowersky dive

Other forms of parachute

plural

parachutes·

past tense

parachuted·

present participle

parachuting·

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 parachute

What does parachute mean?

parachute means "rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parachute?

parachute has 3 syllables: par-a-chute. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /ˈpɛɹəˌʃut/.

What is another word for parachute?

Close synonyms include chute, chute, jump. 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 parachute a common word?

parachute 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 parachute?

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