spearhead

1. 1.

   be the leader of

   “She spearheaded the effort to find a cure for the disease”

   Broaderhead

Other forms of spearhead

plural

spearheads·

past tense

spearheaded·

present participle

spearheading·

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 spearhead

What does spearhead mean?

spearhead means "someone who leads or initiates an activity (attack or campaign etc.)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spearhead?

spearhead has 2 syllables: spear-head. The stress falls on "spear". In IPA it is /ˈspɪɹˌhɛd/.

What is another word for spearhead?

Close synonyms include spearpoint, spear-point. 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 spearhead a common word?

spearhead 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 spearhead?

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