ascribe

Other forms of ascribe

past tense

ascribed·

present participle

ascribing·

third person

ascribes·

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 ascribe

What does ascribe mean?

ascribe means "attribute or credit to".

How many syllables are in ascribe?

ascribe has 2 syllables: a-scribe. The stress falls on "scribe". In IPA it is /əˈskɹaɪb/.

What is another word for ascribe?

Close synonyms include impute, assign, attribute. 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 ascribe a common word?

ascribe 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 ascribe?

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