thought

Other forms of thought

plural

thoughts·

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 thought

What does thought mean?

thought means "the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thought?

thought has 1 syllable: thought. In IPA it is /ˈθɔt/.

What is another word for thought?

Close synonyms include idea, thinking, thought process, cerebration, intellection. 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 thought a common word?

thought is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 thought?

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