rebut

Other forms of rebut

past tense or participle

rebutted

present participle

rebutting

third person

rebuts·

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 rebut

What does rebut mean?

rebut means "overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rebut?

rebut has 2 syllables: re-but. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈbʌt/.

What is another word for rebut?

Close synonyms include refute, refute, controvert. 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 rebut a common word?

rebut 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 rebut?

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