altercate

Other forms of altercate

past tense

altercated·

present participle

altercating·

third person

altercates·

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 altercate

What does altercate mean?

altercate means "have a disagreement over something".

How many syllables are in altercate?

altercate has 3 syllables: al-ter-cate. The stress falls on "al".

What is another word for altercate?

Close synonyms include quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy. 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 altercate a common word?

altercate 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.