scrounge

Other forms of scrounge

past tense

scrounged·

present participle

scrounging·

third person

scrounges·

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 scrounge

What does scrounge mean?

scrounge means "collect or look around for (food)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scrounge?

scrounge has 1 syllable: scrounge. In IPA it is /ˈskɹaʊndʒ/.

What is another word for scrounge?

Close synonyms include forage, schnorr, shnorr, cadge. 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 scrounge a common word?

scrounge 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.