accredit

Other forms of accredit

past tense

accreditted·

present participle

accreditting·

third person

accredits·

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 accredit

What does accredit mean?

accredit means "grant credentials to". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accredit?

accredit has 3 syllables: ac-cred-it. The stress falls on "cred". In IPA it is /əˌkɹɛdət/.

What is another word for accredit?

Close synonyms include recognize, recognise, credit. 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 accredit a common word?

accredit 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 accredit?

1 word rhymes with accredit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.