devalue

Other forms of devalue

past tense

devalued·

present participle

devaluing·

third person

devalues·

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 devalue

What does devalue mean?

devalue means "remove the value from; deprive of its value". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in devalue?

devalue has 3 syllables: de-val-ue. The stress falls on "val". In IPA it is /dɪˈvæˌlju/.

What is another word for devalue?

Close synonyms include devaluate, depreciate, undervalue, devaluate. 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 devalue a common word?

devalue 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 devalue?

1 word rhymes with devalue. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.