threaten

Other forms of threaten

past tense

threatenned·

present participle

threatenning·

third person

threatens·

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 threaten

What does threaten mean?

threaten means "pose a threat to; present a danger to". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in threaten?

threaten has 2 syllables: threat-en. The stress falls on "threat". In IPA it is /ˈθɹɛtən/.

What is another word for threaten?

Close synonyms include endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, imperil. 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 threaten a common word?

threaten is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.