confer

Other forms of confer

past tense or participle

conferred

present participle

conferring

third person

confers·

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 confer

What does confer mean?

confer means "have a conference in order to talk something over". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in confer?

confer has 2 syllables: con-fer. The stress falls on "fer". In IPA it is /kənˈfɝ/.

What is another word for confer?

Close synonyms include confabulate, confab, consult, bestow. 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 confer a common word?

confer 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 confer?

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