shoe

1. 1.

   furnish with shoes

   “the children were well shoed”

   Broaderdress

Other forms of shoe

plural

shoes·

past tense or participle

shod

present participle

shoing·

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 shoe

What does shoe mean?

shoe means "footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shoe?

shoe has 1 syllable: shoe. In IPA it is /ˈʃu/.

What is another word for shoe?

Close synonyms include horseshoe, brake shoe, skid. 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 shoe a common word?

shoe 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 shoe?

7 words rhyme with shoe. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.