align

Other forms of align

past tense

aligned·

present participle

aligning·

third person

aligns·

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 align

What does align mean?

align means "place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in align?

align has 2 syllables: a-lign. The stress falls on "lign". In IPA it is /əˈlaɪn/.

What is another word for align?

Close synonyms include aline, line up, adjust, array, ordinate. 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.

What is the opposite of align?

The recorded antonyms are skew.

Is align a common word?

align is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 align?

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