deliver

Other forms of deliver

past tense

deliverred·

present participle

deliverring·

third person

delivers·

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 deliver

What does deliver mean?

deliver means "deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deliver?

deliver has 3 syllables: de-liv-er. The stress falls on "liv". In IPA it is /dɪˈlɪvɚ/.

What is another word for deliver?

Close synonyms include present, hand over, fork over, fork out, fork up. 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 deliver a common word?

deliver 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 deliver?

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