attain

Other forms of attain

past tense

attained·

present participle

attaining·

third person

attains·

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 attain

What does attain mean?

attain means "to gain with effort". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attain?

attain has 2 syllables: at-tain. The stress falls on "tain". In IPA it is /əˈteɪn/.

What is another word for attain?

Close synonyms include achieve, accomplish, reach, reach, hit. 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 attain a common word?

attain 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.

What rhymes with attain?

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