pursuit

Other forms of pursuit

plural

pursuits·

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 pursuit

What does pursuit mean?

pursuit means "the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pursuit?

pursuit has 2 syllables: pur-suit. The stress falls on "suit". In IPA it is /pɚˈsut/.

What is another word for pursuit?

Close synonyms include chase, pursual, following, pursuance, quest. 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 pursuit a common word?

pursuit is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 pursuit?

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