skyrocket

Other forms of skyrocket

plural

skyrockets·

past tense

skyrocketted·

present participle

skyrocketting·

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 skyrocket

What does skyrocket mean?

skyrocket means "propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in skyrocket?

skyrocket has 3 syllables: sky-roc-ket. The stress falls on "sky". In IPA it is /ˈskaɪˌɹɑkət/.

What is another word for skyrocket?

Close synonyms include rocket, rocket, rocket. 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 skyrocket a common word?

skyrocket 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 skyrocket?

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