deputise

Other forms of deputise

past tense

deputised·

present participle

deputising·

third person

deputises·

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 deputise

What does deputise mean?

deputise means "act as a substitute". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deputise?

deputise has 3 syllables: de-pu-tise. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for deputise?

Close synonyms include substitute, deputize, step in, depute, deputize. 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 deputise a common word?

deputise 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.