sidetrack

Other forms of sidetrack

plural

sidetracks·

past tense

sidetracked·

present participle

sidetracking·

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 sidetrack

What does sidetrack mean?

sidetrack means "a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sidetrack?

sidetrack has 2 syllables: side-track. The stress falls on "side". In IPA it is /ˈsaɪdˌtɹæk/.

What is another word for sidetrack?

Close synonyms include siding, railroad siding, turnout, depart, digress. 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 sidetrack a common word?

sidetrack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 sidetrack?

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