tailgate

Other forms of tailgate

plural

tailgates·

past tense

tailgated·

present participle

tailgating·

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 tailgate

What does tailgate mean?

tailgate means "a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tailgate?

tailgate has 2 syllables: tail-gate. The stress falls on "tail". In IPA it is /ˈteɪlˌɡeɪt/.

What is another word for tailgate?

Close synonyms include tailboard. 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 tailgate a common word?

tailgate 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.

What rhymes with tailgate?

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