quicken

Other forms of quicken

past tense

quickenned·

present participle

quickenning·

third person

quickens·

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 quicken

What does quicken mean?

quicken means "move faster". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quicken?

quicken has 2 syllables: quic-ken. The stress falls on "quic". In IPA it is /ˈkwɪkən/.

What is another word for quicken?

Close synonyms include accelerate, speed up, speed, whet, invigorate. 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 quicken a common word?

quicken 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.