congratulate

Other forms of congratulate

past tense

congratulated·

present participle

congratulating·

third person

congratulates·

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 congratulate

What does congratulate mean?

congratulate means "say something to someone that expresses praise". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in congratulate?

congratulate has 4 syllables: con-grat-u-late. The stress falls on "grat". In IPA it is /kənˈɡɹætʃəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for congratulate?

Close synonyms include compliment, felicitate, pride, plume, preen. 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 congratulate a common word?

congratulate 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 congratulate?

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