de

Other forms of de

plural

des·

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 de

What does de mean?

de means "a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies".

How many syllables are in de?

de has 1 syllable: de. In IPA it is /ˈdi/.

What is another word for de?

Close synonyms include Delaware, Diamond State, First State, Del.. 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 de a common word?

de is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 de?

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