deduct

Other forms of deduct

past tense

deducted·

present participle

deducting·

third person

deducts·

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 deduct

What does deduct mean?

deduct means "make a subtraction". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deduct?

deduct has 2 syllables: de-duct. The stress falls on "duct". In IPA it is /dɪˈdʌkt/.

What is another word for deduct?

Close synonyms include subtract, take off, withhold, recoup, deduce. 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 deduct a common word?

deduct is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 deduct?

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