delude

Other forms of delude

past tense

deluded·

present participle

deluding·

third person

deludes·

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 delude

What does delude mean?

delude means "be false to; be dishonest with".

How many syllables are in delude?

delude has 2 syllables: de-lude. The stress falls on "lude". In IPA it is /dɪˈlud/.

What is another word for delude?

Close synonyms include deceive, lead on, cozen. 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 delude a common word?

delude is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 delude?

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