sing

Other forms of sing

past tense or participle

sang

past tense or participle

sung

present participle

singing

third person

sings·

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 sing

What does sing mean?

sing means "deliver by singing". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sing?

sing has 1 syllable: sing. In IPA it is /ˈsɪŋ/.

What is another word for sing?

Close synonyms include whistle, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle. 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 sing a common word?

sing is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 sing?

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