swoon

Other forms of swoon

plural

swoons·

past tense

swooned·

present participle

swooning·

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 swoon

What does swoon mean?

swoon means "a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swoon?

swoon has 1 syllable: swoon. In IPA it is /ˈswun/.

What is another word for swoon?

Close synonyms include faint, syncope, deliquium, faint, conk. 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 swoon a common word?

swoon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.