confirm

Other forms of confirm

past tense

confirmed·

present participle

confirming·

third person

confirms·

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 confirm

What does confirm mean?

confirm means "establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in confirm?

confirm has 2 syllables: con-firm. The stress falls on "firm". In IPA it is /kənˈfɝm/.

What is another word for confirm?

Close synonyms include corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm. 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 confirm a common word?

confirm is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 confirm?

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