apprentice

Other forms of apprentice

plural

apprentices·

past tense

apprenticed·

present participle

apprenticing·

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 apprentice

What does apprentice mean?

apprentice means "works for an expert to learn a trade". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apprentice?

apprentice has 3 syllables: ap-pren-tice. The stress falls on "pren". In IPA it is /əˈpɹɛntəs/.

What is another word for apprentice?

Close synonyms include learner, prentice. 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 apprentice a common word?

apprentice 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.