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 and divides as al-ter-cate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.