pitchfork

Other forms of pitchfork

plural

pitchforks·

past tense

pitchforked·

present participle

pitchforking·

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 pitchfork

What does pitchfork mean?

pitchfork means "a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pitchfork?

pitchfork has 2 syllables: pitch-fork. The stress falls on "pitch". In IPA it is /ˈpɪtʃˌfɔɹk/.

What is another word for pitchfork?

Close synonyms include fork. 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 pitchfork a common word?

pitchfork 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 pitchfork?

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