ricochet

Other forms of ricochet

plural

ricochets·

past tense or participle

ricochetted

present participle

ricochetting

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 ricochet

What does ricochet mean?

ricochet means "a glancing rebound". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ricochet?

ricochet has 3 syllables: ric-o-chet. The stress falls on "ric". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪkəˌʃeɪ/.

What is another word for ricochet?

Close synonyms include carom, bounce, resile, take a hop, spring. 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 ricochet a common word?

ricochet 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 ricochet?

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