rapture

Other forms of rapture

plural

raptures·

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 rapture

What does rapture mean?

rapture means "a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rapture?

rapture has 2 syllables: rap-ture. The stress falls on "rap". In IPA it is /ˈɹæptʃɚ/.

What is another word for rapture?

Close synonyms include ecstasy, transport, exaltation, raptus, ecstasy. 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 rapture a common word?

rapture 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.

What rhymes with rapture?

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