believe

Other forms of believe

past tense

believed·

present participle

believing·

third person

believes·

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 believe

What does believe mean?

believe means "accept as true; take to be true". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in believe?

believe has 2 syllables: be-lieve. The stress falls on "lieve". In IPA it is /bɪˈliv/.

What is another word for believe?

Close synonyms include think, consider, conceive, trust. 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.

What is the opposite of believe?

The recorded antonyms are disbelieve.

Is believe a common word?

believe is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 believe?

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