depend

Other forms of depend

past tense

depended·

present participle

depending·

third person

depends·

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 depend

What does depend mean?

depend means "be contingent upon (something that is elided)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in depend?

depend has 2 syllables: de-pend. The stress falls on "pend". In IPA it is /dɪˈpɛnd/.

What is another word for depend?

Close synonyms include count, bet, swear, rely, bank. 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 depend a common word?

depend 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 depend?

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