countervail

Other forms of countervail

past tense

countervailed·

present participle

countervailing·

third person

countervails·

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 countervail

What does countervail mean?

countervail means "compensate for or counterbalance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in countervail?

countervail has 3 syllables: coun-ter-vail. The stress falls on "coun". In IPA it is /ˈkaʊntɚˌveɪl/.

What is another word for countervail?

Close synonyms include offset, counteract, neutralize, counterbalance. 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 countervail a common word?

countervail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 countervail?

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