appoint

Other forms of appoint

past tense

appointed·

present participle

appointing·

third person

appoints·

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 appoint

What does appoint mean?

appoint means "create and charge with a task or function". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appoint?

appoint has 2 syllables: ap-point. The stress falls on "point". In IPA it is /əˈpɔɪnt/.

What is another word for appoint?

Close synonyms include name, nominate, constitute, charge. 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 appoint a common word?

appoint 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 appoint?

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