circulate

Other forms of circulate

past tense

circulated·

present participle

circulating·

third person

circulates·

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 circulate

What does circulate mean?

circulate means "become widely known and passed on". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in circulate?

circulate has 3 syllables: cir-cu-late. The stress falls on "cir". In IPA it is /ˈsɝkjəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for circulate?

Close synonyms include go around, spread, circularize, circularise, distribute. 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 circulate a common word?

circulate 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 circulate?

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