quell

Other forms of quell

past tense

quelled·

present participle

quelling·

third person

quells·

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 quell

What does quell mean?

quell means "suppress or crush completely". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quell?

quell has 1 syllable: quell. In IPA it is /ˈkwɛl/.

What is another word for quell?

Close synonyms include squelch, quench, stay, appease. 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 quell a common word?

quell 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 quell?

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