adjoin

Other forms of adjoin

past tense

adjoined·

present participle

adjoining·

third person

adjoins·

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 adjoin

What does adjoin mean?

adjoin means "lie adjacent to another or share a boundary". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adjoin?

adjoin has 2 syllables: ad-join. The stress falls on "join". In IPA it is /əˈdʒɔɪn/.

What is another word for adjoin?

Close synonyms include border, edge, abut, march, butt. 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 adjoin a common word?

adjoin 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 adjoin?

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