apportion

Other forms of apportion

past tense

apportioned·

present participle

apportioning·

third person

apportions·

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 apportion

What does apportion mean?

apportion means "distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apportion?

apportion has 3 syllables: ap-por-tion. The stress falls on "por". In IPA it is /əˈpɔɹʃən/.

What is another word for apportion?

Close synonyms include allocate, share, divvy up, portion out, deal. 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 apportion a common word?

apportion 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 apportion?

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