pluperfect

Other forms of pluperfect

plural

pluperfects·

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 pluperfect

What does pluperfect mean?

pluperfect means "a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pluperfect?

pluperfect has 3 syllables: plu-per-fect. The stress falls on "plu".

What is another word for pluperfect?

Close synonyms include past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense. 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 pluperfect a common word?

pluperfect 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.