somersault

1. 1.

   do a somersault

   Broaderroll over

Other forms of somersault

plural

somersaults·

past tense

somersaulted·

present participle

somersaulting·

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 somersault

What does somersault mean?

somersault means "an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in somersault?

somersault has 3 syllables: som-er-sault. The stress falls on "som". In IPA it is /ˈsʌmɚˌsɔlt/.

What is another word for somersault?

Close synonyms include somerset, summersault, summerset, somersaulting, flip. 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 somersault a common word?

somersault 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 somersault?

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