consult

Other forms of consult

past tense

consulted·

present participle

consulting·

third person

consults·

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 consult

What does consult mean?

consult means "get or ask advice from". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in consult?

consult has 2 syllables: con-sult. The stress falls on "sult". In IPA it is /kənˈsʌlt/.

What is another word for consult?

Close synonyms include confer with, refer, look up, confer, confabulate. 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 consult a common word?

consult 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 consult?

1 word rhymes with consult. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.