derange

Other forms of derange

past tense

deranged·

present participle

deranging·

third person

deranges·

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 derange

What does derange mean?

derange means "derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in derange?

derange has 2 syllables: de-range. The stress falls on "range". In IPA it is /dɪˈɹeɪndʒ/.

What is another word for derange?

Close synonyms include unbalance, perturb, throw out of kilter. 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 derange a common word?

derange 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.

What rhymes with derange?

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