thwart

Other forms of thwart

plural

thwarts·

past tense

thwarted·

present participle

thwarting·

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 thwart

What does thwart mean?

thwart means "a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thwart?

thwart has 1 syllable: thwart. In IPA it is /ˈθwɔɹt/.

What is another word for thwart?

Close synonyms include cross thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil. 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 thwart a common word?

thwart 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.

What rhymes with thwart?

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