succour

Other forms of succour

plural

succours·

past tense

succoured·

present participle

succouring·

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 succour

What does succour mean?

succour means "assistance in time of difficulty". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in succour?

succour has 2 syllables: suc-cour. The stress falls on "suc".

What is another word for succour?

Close synonyms include relief, succor, ministration, succor. 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 succour a common word?

succour 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.