pounce

Other forms of pounce

plural

pounces·

past tense

pounced·

present participle

pouncing·

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 pounce

What does pounce mean?

pounce means "the act of pouncing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pounce?

pounce has 1 syllable: pounce. In IPA it is /ˈpaʊns/.

What is another word for pounce?

Close synonyms include swoop. 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 pounce a common word?

pounce 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.