appraise

Other forms of appraise

past tense

appraised·

present participle

appraising·

third person

appraises·

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 appraise

What does appraise mean?

appraise means "evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appraise?

appraise has 2 syllables: ap-praise. The stress falls on "praise". In IPA it is /əˈpɹeɪz/.

What is another word for appraise?

Close synonyms include measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, value. 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 appraise a common word?

appraise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 appraise?

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