sidestep

Other forms of sidestep

plural

sidesteps·

past tense or participle

sidestepped

present participle

sidestepping

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 sidestep

What does sidestep mean?

sidestep means "a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sidestep?

sidestep has 2 syllables: side-step. The stress falls on "side". In IPA it is /ˈsaɪdˌstɛp/.

What is another word for sidestep?

Close synonyms include hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent. 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 sidestep a common word?

sidestep 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.

What rhymes with sidestep?

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