decouple

Other forms of decouple

past tense

decoupled·

present participle

decoupling·

third person

decouples·

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 decouple

What does decouple mean?

decouple means "disconnect or separate". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decouple?

decouple has 3 syllables: de-cou-ple. The stress falls on "cou". In IPA it is /diˈkʌpəl/.

What is another word for decouple?

Close synonyms include uncouple, dissociate. 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 decouple a common word?

decouple 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 decouple?

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