spellbind

Other forms of spellbind

past tense or participle

spellbound

present participle

spellbinding·

third person

spellbinds·

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 spellbind

What does spellbind mean?

spellbind means "to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spellbind?

spellbind has 2 syllables: spell-bind. The stress falls on "bind".

What is another word for spellbind?

Close synonyms include fascinate, transfix, grip, magnetize, mesmerize. 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 spellbind a common word?

spellbind is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.