react

Other forms of react

past tense

reacted·

present participle

reacting·

third person

reacts·

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 react

What does react mean?

react means "show a response or a reaction to something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in react?

react has 2 syllables: re-act. The stress falls on "act". In IPA it is /ɹiˈækt/.

What is another word for react?

Close synonyms include respond, oppose. 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 react a common word?

react 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 react?

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