thicken

Other forms of thicken

past tense

thickenned·

present participle

thickenning·

third person

thickens·

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 thicken

What does thicken mean?

thicken means "make thick or thicker". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thicken?

thicken has 2 syllables: thic-ken. The stress falls on "thic". In IPA it is /ˈθɪkən/.

What is another word for thicken?

Close synonyms include inspissate, inspissate, inspissate. 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.

What is the opposite of thicken?

The recorded antonyms are thin, thin.

Is thicken a common word?

thicken 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.