LEAPT
What does "LEAPT" mean?
Past tense and past participle of 'leap': jumped a distance or sprang upward.
Meanings
- Past tense of 'leap'; sprang or jumped, often a long or sudden distance. The cat leapt from the fence to the windowsill.
- Past tense of 'leap' in the figurative sense of rising or acting suddenly. Sales leapt forty percent after the ad ran. figurative
Word origin
Past form of 'leap', from Old English 'hleapan' meaning to jump or run; 'leapt' and 'leaped' have coexisted for centuries.
Remember it
LEAPT and 'leaped' both work; LEAPT keeps the short-E sound, rhyming with 'kept' and 'crept'.
A little poem
The deer cleared the wall-
for one held breath it was air,
then the field again.
haiku
Wordplay
- My faith and the frog both leapt before they looked. Only one of them is still in therapy.
What it teaches
Every leap is a brief argument with gravity that you can only win by committing to the air.
Quick facts
What does LEAPT mean?
Past tense and past participle of 'leap': jumped a distance or sprang upward.
Is LEAPT a valid word?
Yes — LEAPT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is LEAPT?
LEAPT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does LEAPT come from?
Past form of 'leap', from Old English 'hleapan' meaning to jump or run; 'leapt' and 'leaped' have coexisted for centuries.
What can LEAPT teach us?
Every leap is a brief argument with gravity that you can only win by committing to the air.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.