scrimmage

Other forms of scrimmage

plural

scrimmages·

past tense

scrimmaged·

present participle

scrimmaging·

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 scrimmage

What does scrimmage mean?

scrimmage means "(American football) practice play between a football team's squads". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scrimmage?

scrimmage has 2 syllables: scrim-mage. The stress falls on "scrim". In IPA it is /ˈskɹɪmɪdʒ/.

What is another word for scrimmage?

Close synonyms include melee, battle royal. 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 scrimmage a common word?

scrimmage 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.