scurry

Other forms of scurry

plural

scurries·

past tense or participle

scurried

present participle

scurrying·

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 scurry

What does scurry mean?

scurry means "rushing about hastily in an undignified way". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scurry?

scurry has 2 syllables: scur-ry. The stress falls on "scur". In IPA it is /ˈskɝi/.

What is another word for scurry?

Close synonyms include scamper, scramble, scamper, skitter, scuttle. 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 scurry a common word?

scurry 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.