allot

Other forms of allot

past tense or participle

allotted

present participle

allotting

third person

allots·

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 allot

What does allot mean?

allot means "give out". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in allot?

allot has 2 syllables: al-lot. The stress falls on "lot". In IPA it is /əˈlɑt/.

What is another word for allot?

Close synonyms include assign, portion, accord, grant, distribute. 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 allot a common word?

allot 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.

What rhymes with allot?

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