choose

Other forms of choose

past tense or participle

chose

past tense or participle

chosen

present participle

choosing·

third person

chooses·

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 choose

What does choose mean?

choose means "pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in choose?

choose has 1 syllable: choose. In IPA it is /ˈtʃuz/.

What is another word for choose?

Close synonyms include take, select, pick out, prefer, opt. 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 choose a common word?

choose 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.