sharpened

Questions about sharpened

What does sharpened mean?

sharpened means "having the point made sharp". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sharpened?

sharpened has 2 syllables: shar-pened. The stress falls on "shar". In IPA it is /ˈʃɑɹpənd/.

Is sharpened a common word?

sharpened is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 sharpened?

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