spawn

Other forms of spawn

plural

spawns·

past tense

spawned·

present participle

spawning·

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 spawn

What does spawn mean?

spawn means "call forth". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spawn?

spawn has 1 syllable: spawn. In IPA it is /ˈspɑn/.

What is another word for spawn?

Close synonyms include engender, breed. 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 spawn a common word?

spawn is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.