telescope

Other forms of telescope

plural

telescopes·

past tense

telescoped·

present participle

telescoping·

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 telescope

What does telescope mean?

telescope means "crush together or collapse". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in telescope?

telescope has 3 syllables: tel-e-scope. The stress falls on "tel". In IPA it is /ˈtɛləˌskoʊp/.

What is another word for telescope?

Close synonyms include scope. 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 telescope a common word?

telescope is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 telescope?

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