surmount

Other forms of surmount

past tense

surmounted·

present participle

surmounting·

third person

surmounts·

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 surmount

What does surmount mean?

surmount means "get on top of; deal with successfully". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surmount?

surmount has 2 syllables: sur-mount. The stress falls on "mount". In IPA it is /sɚˈmaʊnt/.

What is another word for surmount?

Close synonyms include overcome, get over, subdue, master, scale. 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 surmount a common word?

surmount 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.

What rhymes with surmount?

6 words rhyme with surmount. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.