consign

Other forms of consign

past tense

consigned·

present participle

consigning·

third person

consigns·

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 consign

What does consign mean?

consign means "commit forever; commit irrevocably". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in consign?

consign has 2 syllables: con-sign. The stress falls on "sign". In IPA it is /kənˈsaɪn/.

What is another word for consign?

Close synonyms include charge. 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 consign a common word?

consign is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 consign?

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