aspirate

1. 1.

   a consonant pronounced with aspiration

   Broaderconsonant

Other forms of aspirate

plural

aspirates·

past tense

aspirated·

present participle

aspirating·

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 aspirate

What does aspirate mean?

aspirate means "remove by suction". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aspirate?

aspirate has 3 syllables: as-pi-rate. The stress falls on "as". In IPA it is /ˈæspɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for aspirate?

Close synonyms include draw out, suck out. 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 aspirate a common word?

aspirate 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 aspirate?

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