skewer

Other forms of skewer

plural

skewers·

past tense

skewerred·

present participle

skewerring·

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 skewer

What does skewer mean?

skewer means "a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in skewer?

skewer has 2 syllables: ske-wer. The stress falls on "ske". In IPA it is /ˈskjuɚ/.

What is another word for skewer?

Close synonyms include spit. 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 skewer a common word?

skewer 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 skewer?

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