rocket

1. 1.

   shoot up abruptly, like a rocket

   “prices skyrocketed”

   Synonymsskyrocket

   Broaderrise
2. 2.

   propel with a rocket

   Broaderpropel

Other forms of rocket

plural

rockets·

past tense

rocketted·

present participle

rocketting·

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 rocket

What does rocket mean?

rocket means "any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rocket?

rocket has 2 syllables: roc-ket. The stress falls on "roc". In IPA it is /ˈɹɑkət/.

What is another word for rocket?

Close synonyms include projectile, rocket engine, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad. 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 rocket a common word?

rocket 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 rocket?

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