swathe

Other forms of swathe

plural

swathes·

past tense

swathed·

present participle

swathing·

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 swathe

What does swathe mean?

swathe means "an enveloping bandage". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swathe?

swathe has 1 syllable: swathe. In IPA it is /ˈswɑð/.

What is another word for swathe?

Close synonyms include wrapping, swaddle. 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 swathe a common word?

swathe 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.