undertone

Other forms of undertone

plural

undertones·

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 undertone

What does undertone mean?

undertone means "a quiet or hushed tone of voice". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in undertone?

undertone has 3 syllables: un-der-tone. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚˌtoʊn/.

What is another word for undertone?

Close synonyms include undercurrent, tinge. 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 undertone a common word?

undertone 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.

What rhymes with undertone?

8 words rhyme with undertone. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.