typewrite

Other forms of typewrite

past tense or participle

typewritten

past tense or participle

typewrote

present participle

typewriting·

third person

typewrites·

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 typewrite

What does typewrite mean?

typewrite means "write by means of a keyboard with types".

How many syllables are in typewrite?

typewrite has 3 syllables and divides as ty-pe-write under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for typewrite?

Close synonyms include type. 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 typewrite a common word?

typewrite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.