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 and divides as de-pu-tise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.