swear

Other forms of swear

past tense or participle

swore

past tense or participle

sworn

present participle

swearing·

third person

swears·

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 swear

What does swear mean?

swear means "utter obscenities or profanities". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swear?

swear has 1 syllable: swear. In IPA it is /ˈswɛɹ/.

What is another word for swear?

Close synonyms include curse, cuss, blaspheme, imprecate, affirm. 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 swear a common word?

swear is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 swear?

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