accentuate

Other forms of accentuate

past tense

accentuated·

present participle

accentuating·

third person

accentuates·

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 accentuate

What does accentuate mean?

accentuate means "to stress, single out as important". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accentuate?

accentuate has 4 syllables: ac-cen-tu-ate. The stress falls on "cen". In IPA it is /ækˈsɛntʃueɪt/.

What is another word for accentuate?

Close synonyms include stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent. 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 accentuate a common word?

accentuate 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.