surf

1. 1.

   waves breaking on the shore

   Synonymsbreakerbreakers

   Broaderwave

Other forms of surf

plural

surfs·

past tense

surfed·

present participle

surfing·

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 surf

What does surf mean?

surf means "ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surf?

surf has 1 syllable: surf. In IPA it is /ˈsɝf/.

What is another word for surf?

Close synonyms include surfboard, browse, channel-surf, breaker, breakers. 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 surf a common word?

surf 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.

What rhymes with surf?

1 word rhymes with surf. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.