Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fought

/foːt/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

Syllables: fought
IPA: /foːt/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of fight

name

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /foːt/
British English: /fɔːt/

Inflected Forms

Foughts (plural)

Derived Forms

unfought

Homonyms

fort (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger) thought (th-fronting)

Rhymes With

thought brought taught sought ought ot bot wrought wat distraught fraught naught

Questions

How do you pronounce fought?: The recorded pronunciation is /foːt/.
What does fought mean?: simple past and past participle of fight

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