append

Other forms of append

past tense

appended·

present participle

appending·

third person

appends·

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 append

What does append mean?

append means "add to the very end". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in append?

append has 2 syllables: ap-pend. The stress falls on "pend". In IPA it is /əˈpɛnd/.

What is another word for append?

Close synonyms include add on, supplement, affix, tag on, tack on. 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 append a common word?

append 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 append?

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