summersault

Other forms of summersault

plural

summersaults·

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 summersault

What does summersault mean?

summersault means "an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return".

How many syllables are in summersault?

summersault has 3 syllables: sum-mer-sault. The stress falls on "sum".

What is another word for summersault?

Close synonyms include somersault, somerset, summerset, somersaulting, flip. 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 summersault a common word?

summersault 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.