straighten

Other forms of straighten

past tense

straightenned·

present participle

straightenning·

third person

straightens·

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 straighten

What does straighten mean?

straighten means "straighten up or out; make straight". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in straighten?

straighten has 2 syllables: straigh-ten. The stress falls on "straigh". In IPA it is /ˈstɹeɪtən/.

What is another word for straighten?

Close synonyms include unbend, straighten out, tidy, tidy up, clean up. 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.

What is the opposite of straighten?

The recorded antonyms are bend.

Is straighten a common word?

straighten is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.