teem

Other forms of teem

past tense

teemed·

present participle

teeming·

third person

teems·

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 teem

What does teem mean?

teem means "be teeming, be abuzz". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in teem?

teem has 1 syllable: teem. In IPA it is /ˈtim/.

What is another word for teem?

Close synonyms include pullulate, swarm, pour, swarm, stream. 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 teem a common word?

teem 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 teem?

1 word rhymes with teem. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.