upshot

Other forms of upshot

plural

upshots·

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 upshot

What does upshot mean?

upshot means "a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon".

How many syllables are in upshot?

upshot has 2 syllables: up-shot. The stress falls on "up". In IPA it is /ˈʌpˌʃɑt/.

What is another word for upshot?

Close synonyms include consequence, effect, outcome, result, event. 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 upshot a common word?

upshot 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 upshot?

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