comport

Other forms of comport

past tense

comported·

present participle

comporting·

third person

comports·

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 comport

What does comport mean?

comport means "behave well or properly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in comport?

comport has 2 syllables: com-port. The stress falls on "port". In IPA it is /kəmˈpɔɹt/.

What is another word for comport?

Close synonyms include behave, behave, acquit, bear, deport. 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 comport a common word?

comport is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 comport?

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